The effects of education on mortality: Evidence using college expansions
利用美国社会保障局死亡率数据和1940年人口普查数据，通过大学扩张带来的教育变化，发现受教育程度提高可使寿命延长1.3至2.7年，为教育对健康的影响提供了因果证据。
This paper explores the long-run health benefits of education for longevity. Using mortality data from the Social Security Administration (1988-2005) linked to geographic locations in the 1940-census data, we exploit changes in college availability across cohorts in local areas. Our treatment on the treated calculations suggest increases in longevity between 1.3 and 2.7 years. Some further analyses suggest the results are not driven by pre-tends, endogenous migration, and other time-varying local confounders. This paper adds to the literature on the health and social benefits of education.