Barcellos Silvia H, Carvalho Leandro S, Turley Patrick
University of Southern California and an affiliate of NBER.
Center for Economic and Social Research and at the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
J Hum Resour. 2023 Jul;58(4):1273-1306. doi: 10.3368/jhr.59.2.0720-11064r1. Epub 2021 Jun 9.
This paper studies distributional effects of education on health. In 1972, England, Scotland, and Wales raised their minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 for students born after 9/1/1957. Using a regression discontinuity design and objective health measures for 129,000 individuals, we find that education reduced body size and increased blood pressure in middle age. The reduction in body size was concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution with an 8 percentage point reduction in obesity. The increase in blood pressure was concentrated at the lower tail of the distribution with no effect on stage 2 hypertension.
本文研究教育对健康的分布效应。1972年，英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士将1957年9月1日以后出生学生的最低离校年龄从15岁提高到了16岁。利用回归断点设计和针对12.9万人的客观健康指标，我们发现教育使中年人的体型减小，血压升高。体型减小集中在分布的上尾部，肥胖率降低了8个百分点。血压升高集中在分布的下尾部，对二期高血压没有影响。
