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

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 673-701

  Lundborg, Petter ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e Health Economics Program Lund   (Sweden)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872834501     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-012-0429-5     Document Type: Article

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