Secondary school fees and the causal eff
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Steffen Reinhold; Hendrik JΓΌrges
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## 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 va