Lleras-Muney Adriana
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Can J Econ. 2022 Feb;55(1):5-37. doi: 10.1111/caje.12582. Epub 2022 Mar 29.
Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and across places and populations. I discuss explanations for these disparate results and suggest directions for future research.
教育和收入是健康和长寿的有力预测因素。在过去20年里,人们付出了许多努力来了解这些关系是否具有因果性,以及政策可能应发挥何种作用。来自各种研究的证据并不明确:教育和收入政策对健康的影响是异质性的,会随时间、地点和人群的不同而变化。我讨论了这些不同结果的解释,并提出了未来研究的方向。