The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain
利用英国义务教育法改革导致的受教育年限差异，通过断点回归发现教育对健康无显著因果影响，提醒政策制定者谨慎看待通过提高教育程度改善健康的预期。
There is a strong, positive, and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to understand to what extent this relationship is causal. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp across-cohort differences in educational attainment. Using regression discontinuity methods, we find the reforms did not affect health although the reforms impacted educational attainment and wages. Our results suggest caution as to the likely health returns to educational interventions focused on increasing educational attainment among those at risk of dropping out of high school, a target of recent health policy efforts.