Schooling has smaller or insignificant effects on adult health in the US than suggested by cross-sectional associations: New estimates using relatively large samples of identical twins

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 181-189

  Amin, Vikesh ^a   Behrman, Jere R ^b   Kohler, Hans Peter ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal effects; Health; Identical (monozygotic) twins estimators; Schooling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EDUCATION; HEALTH IMPACT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ADULT HEALTH; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; REGISTER; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSAL SCHOOLING; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922272844     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.065     Document Type: Article

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