Schooling, cognitive ability and health
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M. Christopher Auld; Nirmal Sidhu
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same