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The Effect of College Education on Health / Kasey Buckles, Andreas Hagemann, Ofer Malamud, Melinda S. Morrill, Abigail K. Wozniak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckles, Kasey.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19222.
- NBER working paper series no. w19222
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality by 28 percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the Census, ACS, and NHIS.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2013.
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