Download This PaperThe Relationship between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States
44 Pages Posted: 7 Jun 2002 Last revised: 23 Jul 2022
Date Written: June 2002
Abstract
Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature.
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