The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada
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Keywords
mortality; education; microsimulation; quasi-experimental; instrumental variables; veterans;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2019-01-14 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2019-01-14 (Health Economics)
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