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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance: Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China / Mark R. Rosenzweig, Junsen Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenzweig, Mark R.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26089.
- NBER working paper series no. w26089
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in affecting obesity among children and adolescents, using new estimation methods that exploit unique panel data on young twins in China. The estimates indicate that higher levels of schooling negatively affect being overweight and positively affect healthy behavior, with a large component of the causal effects due to increased information on the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. There is also evidence that the higher-income associated with increased schooling increases incentives to invest in health.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2019.
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