Newcastle University, Business School - Economics, Ridley Building, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, UK.
J Health Econ. 2011 Jul;30(4):753-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.05.015. Epub 2011 Jun 6.
I exploit exogenous variation in the likelihood to obtain any sort of educational qualification between January- and February-born individuals for 13 academic cohorts in England. For these cohorts compulsory schooling laws interacted with the timing of the CSE and O-level exams to change the probability of obtaining a qualification by around 2-3 percentage points. I then use data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking, drinking or eating various types of food.
我利用英格兰 13 个学术队列中 1 月和 2 月出生的个体获得任何教育资格的可能性的外生变化，来进行研究。对于这些队列，义务教育法与 CSE 和 O 级考试的时间相互作用，使获得资格的概率变化了大约 2-3 个百分点。然后，我使用英国劳动力调查和英格兰健康调查中这两个月出生的个体的数据，以二月出生作为教育的工具，来研究教育对健康的影响。结果表明，教育对各种与健康相关的指标都没有影响，也没有对健康相关的行为（例如吸烟、饮酒或食用各种类型的食物）产生影响。
