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Secondary school fees and the causal effect of schooling on health behavior

✍ Scribed by Steffen Reinhold; Hendrik Jürges

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
116 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Using German census data, we estimate the causal effect of education on smoking and overweight/obesity using the abolition of secondary school fees as instrumental variable. The West German federal states enacted this reform at different dates after World War II, generating exogenous variation in the access to secondary education. While we find a strong association between schooling and health behaviors using OLS, we do not find support for the notion that education causes better health behavior. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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