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The health returns to schooling-what can we learn from twins?

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Summary, in English

This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic conditions, and exercise behavior, but that additional schooling does not lead to additional health gains. Controlling for certain early life factors that may vary within twin pairs does not alter the main conclusions of this paper.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

673-701

Publication/Series

Journal of Population Economics

Volume

26

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics
  • Economic History

Keywords

  • Health production
  • Education
  • Schooling
  • Twins
  • Returns to education
  • Ability bias

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0933-1433