Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling
研究教育如何通过提升健康知识来改善健康行为，发现健康知识只能解释教育对吸烟、饮酒和锻炼影响的一部分，大部分影响仍无法由知识差异解释。
The positive correlation between schooling and good health is well documented. One explanation is that schooling helps people choose healthier life-styles by improving their knowledge of the relationships between health behaviors and health outcomes. That is, schooling improves the household's allocative efficiency in producing health. This empirical study uses direct measures of health knowledge to test this explanation. Part of the relationship between schooling and the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, and exercise is explained by differences in health knowledge. However, most of schooling's effects on health behavior remain after differences in knowledge are controlled for. Copyright 1991 by University of Chicago Press.