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Does a college education cause better health and health behaviours?

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  • Hai Zhong

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In this article, we exploit the recent higher education expansion in China to apply a regression discontinuity method to identify the causal effects of higher education on health and health behaviours. We do not find causal effect of a college education on better smoking and drinking behaviours. For our selected measures of health, we do not find causal effect of a college education on better self-assessed health, less chance of having illness in the past 3 months and keeping normal body weight; however, we find that a college education could significantly reduce the probability of having hypertension.

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  • Hai Zhong, 2015. "Does a college education cause better health and health behaviours?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(7), pages 639-653, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:47:y:2015:i:7:p:639-653
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.978074
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    1. Grytten, Jostein & Skau, Irene & Sørensen, Rune, 2020. "Who dies early? Education, mortality and causes of death in Norway," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 245(C).
    2. Ren, Yanjun & Zhang, Yanjie & Castro Campos, Bente & Loy, Jens-Peter, 2020. "Unhealthy consumption behaviors and their intergenerational persistence: The role of education," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    3. Cid, Alejandro & Cabrera, José María & Bernatzky, Marianne, 2020. "Combining face-to-face sessions with ICTs for health promotion: Evidence from a field experiment with undergraduate students," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).

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