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The relationship between education and adult mortality in the United States

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A Lleras‐Muney - Review of Economic Studies, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and
health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow
synthetic cohorts using successive US censuses to estimate the impact of educational ...
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Education and health: evaluating theories and evidence

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DM Cutler… - 2006 - nber.org
There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we
review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship
between education and health. The education 'gradient'is found for both health behaviors ...
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Booms, busts, and babies' health

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R Dehejia… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2004 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We study the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's
conception and parental characteristics, parental behaviors, and babies' health. Babies
conceived in times of high unemployment have a reduced incidence of low and very low ...
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Were compulsory attendance and child labor laws effective? An analysis from 1915 to 1939

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A Lleras-Muney - 2001 - nber.org
Secondary schooling experienced incredible growth in the first 40 years of the 20th Century.
Was legislation on compulsory attendance and child labor responsible for this growth?
Using individual data from the 1960 census, I estimate the effect of several laws on ...
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Understanding differences in health behaviors by education

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DM Cutler… - Journal of Health Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Using a variety of data sets from two countries, we examine possible explanations for the
relationship between education and health behaviors, known as the education gradient. We
show that income, health insurance, and family background can account for about 30 ...
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Life expectancy and human capital investments: Evidence from maternal mortality declines

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S Jayachandran… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Theory suggests that longer life expectancy encourages educational investment
because a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. To
estimate the magnitude of this effect, we examine a sudden drop in maternal mortality in ...
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Health inequality, education and medical innovation

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S Glied… - 2003 - nber.org
Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are
large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this
pattern occurs because more educated people are better able than to take advantage of ...
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Socioeconomic status and health: dimensions and mechanisms

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DM Cutler, A Lleras-Muney… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between
socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status--
education, financial resources, rank, and race and ethnicity--paying particular attention to ...
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The effect of education on medical technology adoption: are the more educated more likely to use new drugs

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A Lleras-Muney… - 2002 - nber.org
There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between
education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which
education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more ...
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Bounds in competing risks models and the war on cancer

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BE Honoré, AL Muney - 2004 - nber.org
In 1971 President Nixon declared war on cancer and increased the federal funds allocated
to cancer research dramatically. Thirty years later, many have declared this war a failure.
Overall cancer statistics confirm this view: age-adjusted mortality in 2000 was essentially ...
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Technological innovation and inequality in health

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S Glied… - Demography, 2008 - Springer
Abstract The effect of education on health has been increasing over the past several
decades. We hypothesize that this increasing disparity is related to health-related technical
progress: more-educated people are the first to take advantage of technological advances ...
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Why does financial development matter? The United States from 1900 to 1940

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R Dehejia… - 2003 - nber.org
There is a substantial literature arguing that financial development contributes to economic
growth. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by examining the effect of state-level
banking regulation on financial development and economic growth in the United States ...
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[PDF] Financial development and pathways of growth: state branching and deposit insurance laws in the United States, 1900-1940

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R Dehejia… - JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS- …, 2007 - nber.org
Abstract This paper studies the effect of state-level banking regulation on financial
development and on components of state-level growth in the United States from 1900 to
1940. We use these banking laws to assess the findings of a large recent literature that ...
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Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs

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S Jayachandran, A Lleras-Muney… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper studies the contribution of sulfa drugs, a groundbreaking medical innovation in
the 1930s, to declines in US mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs
represented the first effective treatment. Using time-series and difference-in-differences ...
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The Needs of the Army

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A Lleras-Muney - Journal of Human Resources, 2010 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Recent research suggests that pollution has a large impact on asthma and other
respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. But this relationship and its implications are not
well understood. I use changes in location due to military transfers, which occur entirely to ...
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Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs?

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A Lleras-Muney… - Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2005 - JSTOR
There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between
education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which
education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more ...
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Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities

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A Aizer, A Lleras-Muney… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health
gradients, and if so, why poor women choose different providers than their richer neighbors.
We exploit an exogenous change in policy that occurred in California in the early 1990s ...
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Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?

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SH Barcellos, L Carvalho… - 2012 - nber.org
Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently
in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on
parental investments are likely to be biased because girls systematically end up in larger ...
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[PDF] The needs of the Army: using compulsory relocation in the military to estimate the effect of air pollutants on children's health

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A Lleras-Muney - 2005 - nber.org
Abstract: Recent research suggests that pollution has a very large impact on asthma and
other respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. But this relationship and its implications are
not well understood. I use changes in location due to military transfers, which occur ...
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Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective

A Lleras-Muney - An Analysis from, 1915 - aniandnow.com
BACKGROUND:(1) In the early 20th century, secondary schooling increased.(2) From 1915
to 1939, there were lots of changes in the laws such as Compulsory Attendance and Child
Labor Laws.(3) Need more research on the effect of such changes on education during ...
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[CITATION] Understanding health differences by education

DM Cutler… - NBER Working Paper, 2007
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[CITATION] The effect of education on medical technology adoption: Are the more educated more likely to use new drugs

F Lichtenberg… - NBER Working Paper, 2002
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The Timing of Births: Is the Health of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

R Dehejia… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines
whether this pattern is due to selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral
changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's ...
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[CITATION] Erratum: The relationship between education and adult mortality in the United States

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A Lleras-Muney - Review of Economic Studies, 2006
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[CITATION] Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health

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A Lleras-Muney… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004
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The relationship between education and mortality: an analysis for the US using a unique social experiment

A Lleras-Muney - 2001 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Department: Economics.. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2001.. The purpose
of this dissertation is to determine whether education has a causal effect on health, in
particular on mortality. Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation ...
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[CITATION] The effect of Education on Mortality: An Analysis for the US using a Unique Social Experiment

A Lleras-Muney - Unpublished manuscript. New York: Columbia …, 2001
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[CITATION] forthcoming.“The Determinants of Mortality.”

D Cutler, A Deaton… - Journal of Economic Perspectives
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[CITATION] Educationand Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

D Cutler… - 2006
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[CITATION] Competing Risks and the War on Cancer

B Honoré… - NBER Working Paper, 2004
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[CITATION] The Timing of Births: Is the Quality of Children Counter-Cyclical?

R Dehejia… - 2003 - National Bureau of Economic …
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[PDF] Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 20: The Business and Politics of Health

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D Cutler, A Deaton, A Lleras-Muney - Context, 2008 - isites.harvard.edu
... Cumming-Bruce, Nick, ―Global child mortality total is halved,‖ New York Times, February 2,
2008. Cutler, David, Angus Deaton, and Adriana Lleras-Muney, ―The Determinants of Mortality,‖
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, 20(3), 97-120. Unit 1: Health Page 2. 2 ...
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Access to care, provider choice, and the infant health gradient

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A Aizer, A Lleras-Muney… - The American economic review, 2005 - JSTOR
Children born to poor parents in the United States are more than twice as likely to die within
the first year as those born to higher-income parents (Steven Gortmaker and Paul Wise,
1997). It has long been hypothesized that these differences are due, in part, to unequal ...
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[CITATION] Longevity and human capital investments: evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka

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A Lleras-Muney… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009
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[CITATION] Health Inequality

S Glied… - Education and Medical Innovation, 2003
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[CITATION] Education and Health: Evaluating theories and evidence

C David… - NBER working paper, 2006
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Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons

DM Cutler… - 2012 - nber.org
In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and
health. A large number of studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is
associated with better health. While previous work has thought of the effect of education ...
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[PDF] The Timing of Births: Is the Quality of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

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R Dehejia, A Lleras-Muney, M Bertr, S Glied… - 2003 - Citeseer
Abstract: This paper examines whether there is a counter-cyclical pattern in the quality of
children. In particular, we study the relationship between the unemployment rate and several
measures of parental characteristics, parental behavior behavior, and child health. Using ...
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[PDF] The Education Gradient in Old Age Disability

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DM Cutler… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper was prepared for the NBER conference on the economics of aging, May 2007.
We are grateful to Doug Norton for research assistance, to Anne Case and conference
participants for helpful comments, and to the National Institutes on Aging and the Lasker ...
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Estimation of models with grouped and ungrouped data by means of “2SLS”

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PJ Dhrymes… - Journal of econometrics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper deals with a special case of estimation with grouped data, where the dependent
variable is only available for groups, whereas the endogenous regressor (s) is available at
the individual level. By estimating the first stage using the available individual data, and ...
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Child Gender and Parental Investments in India

SH Barcellos, LS Carvalho… - 2010 - rand.org
There is considerable debate in the literature as to whether boys and girls are treated
differently in India. But son-biased stopping rules imply that previous estimates are likely to
be biased. The authors propose a novel identification strategy to properly identify the ...
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[CITATION] Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths (pp. 221-238)

PH Rubin, JM Shepherd, R Dehejia… - Journal of Law and …, 2007 - JSTOR
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applied micro seminar series, 2008-2009

L Benkard, D Neumark, E Helland, T Derdenger… - www-bcf.usc.edu
12 september (Friday) Lanier Benkard* (Stanford GSB) Oblivious Equilibrium and Extensions
(three papers with links below) Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms (with Weintraub
and van Roy) Extensions to Oblivious Equlibrium Computational Methods for Oblivious ...
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[CITATION] Life expectancy and investments in human capital: Evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka

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PCOR/CHP

DM Cutler, A Deaton, E Duflo… - Research Findings in … - lutung.library.ums.ac.id
485 Contributors Steven J. Atlas General Medicine Division Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, 9th floor Boston, MA 02114 Abhijit V. Banerjee Department of
Economics, E52-252d Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 Memorial Drive ...
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[CITATION] Research Findings in the Economics of Aging: The Education Gradient in Old Age Disability

D Cutler… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Our data come from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Because the HRS is focused
on the elderly, our sample sizes are large; we have 9,157 observations in the 2002 survey.
With the exception of measures of lifetime occupation, our control variables are also very ...
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Health in an Age of Globalization

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S Collins, J Currie, R Easterlin… - Globalization, …, 2004 - books.google.com
\\ Then economists write about globalization, they focus on the movement of VV goods,
people, information, and ideas, and they look at the effects on economic growth, poverty,
and inequality. Health is not a primary focus of their attention. By contrast, much of the ...
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Donkar, Eli N., 81n7 Duflo, Esther, 155, 164 Dynan, Karen, 381 Elo, Irma T., 424 Even, William E., 177n3

H Fehr, M Feroli, KM Flegal, M Floden… - … Security Policy in a …, 2009 - books.google.com
Author Index Abadie, Alberto, 167 Abel, Andrew B., 233, 389 Ahser, Makul, 68 Alho, Juha
M., 46 Altig, D., 389 Ameriks, John, 259 Amin, Kaushik I., 104n29 Anderson, Keaven M., 430
Anderson, Michael W., 45 Arendt, Jacob N., 426 Attanasio, O., 390 Auerbach, Alan, 69, ...

[CITATION] Why does financial development matter?

RH Dehejia… - 2003

[PDF] DOES STAYING IN SCHOOL (AND NOT WORKING) PREVENT TEEN SMOKING AND DRINKING?

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R Jensen… - publicaffairs.ucla.edu
Abstract: Previous work suggests but cannot prove that education improves health
behaviors. We exploit a randomized intervention that increased schooling (and reduced
working) among male students in the Dominican Republic, by providing information on the ...
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Education and Health. Policy Brief# 9.

DM Cutler… - National Poverty Center, University of …, 2007 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: A large and persistent association between education and health has been well-
documented in many countries and time periods and for a wide variety of health measures.
In their paper," Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence," presented at ...
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[PDF] Does Schooling Prevent Teens Smoking and Drinking?

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R Jensen… - 2009 - papers.ccpr.ucla.edu
Abstract: A number of studies have explored the link between education and health or
healthrelated behaviors like drinking and smoking. However, most suffer from concerns of
omitted variables bias and reverse causality that make it difficult to argue for a causal ...
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