Schooling, Skills, and Self-rated Health: A Test of Conventional Wisdom on the Relationship between Educational Attainment and Health

Sociology of Education

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 171-206

  Duke, Naomi ^a   Macmillan, Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

cognitive ability; educational attainment; health; longitudinal; noncognitive skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976486734     PISSN: 00380407     EISSN: 19398573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038040716653168     Document Type: Article

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