Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood
研究了遗传禀赋、父母社会经济地位和教育如何共同影响青年期健康，发现教育成就多基因指数对高社会经济地位者的健康影响更强，且教育与健康的关联在控制多种因素后依然显著，暗示教育对健康有因果效应。
<h3>Abstract</h3> We investigate the formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental socioeconomic status (SES), and education. We find that the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index demonstrates stronger effects on health and health behaviors for subjects with high parental SES. We also show that a strong association between education and health survives controlling not only for detailed traditional controls and cognitive-noncognitive skills, but also for a large set of polygenic indexes that proxy health, skills, and environment, all of which are major expected confounders. This result is suggestive of a causal effect of education on health.