Amin Vikesh, Fletcher Jason M, Lu Qiongshi, Song Jie
Central Michigan University.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, NBER, and IZA.
Econ Educ Rev. 2023 Apr;93. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102354. Epub 2023 Jan 20.
Previous studies using variation in education arising from compulsory schooling laws have found no causal effects of education on mental health in the UK. We re-examine the relationship between education and mental health in the UK by taking a different approach: sibling fixed-effects with controls for polygenic scores (summary measures of genetic predisposition) for educational attainment and adult depressive symptoms. We find that higher educational attainment is associated with better adult mental health, that sibling controls reduce these associations by ~40-70% but important associations remain and find evidence for non-monotonic effects. We also find suggestive evidence that education partially "rescues" genetic predictors of poor mental health.
以往利用义务教育法导致的教育差异进行的研究发现，在英国，教育对心理健康没有因果效应。我们采用了一种不同的方法重新审视英国教育与心理健康之间的关系：运用兄弟姐妹固定效应，并控制教育程度和成人抑郁症状的多基因分数（遗传易感性的汇总指标）。我们发现，较高的教育程度与更好的成人心理健康相关，兄弟姐妹控制变量使这些关联减少了约40%-70%，但重要的关联仍然存在，并且发现了非单调效应的证据。我们还发现了暗示性证据，表明教育在一定程度上“挽救”了心理健康不佳的遗传预测因素。
