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The health-schooling relationship: Evidence from Swedish twins

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Health and education are known to be highly correlated, but the mechanisms behind the relationship are not well understood. In particular, there is sparse evidence on whether adolescent health may influence educational attainment. Using a large registry dataset of twins, including comprehensive information on health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether health predicts final education within monozygotic (identical) twin pairs. We find no evidence of this and conclude that health in adolescence may not have an influence on the level of schooling. Instead, raw correlations between adolescent health and schooling appear to be driven by genes and twin-pair-specific environmental factors.

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1191-1215

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Population Economics

Volym

29

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • TwinsTwin-fixed effects
  • Education
  • Health Specific conditions
  • I10
  • I24
  • I21
  • I14

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0933-1433