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Does more schooling reduce hospitalization and delay mortality? New evidence based on Danish twins.
- Source :
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Demography (Springer Nature) . Nov2011, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p1347-1375. 29p. 9 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Schooling generally is positively associated with better health-related outcomes-for example, less hospitalization and later mortality-but these associations do not measure whether schooling causes better health-related outcomes. Schooling may in part be a proxy for unobserved endowments-including family background and genetics-that both are correlated with schooling and have direct causal effects on these outcomes. This study addresses the schooling-health-gradient issue with twins methodology, using rich data from the Danish Twin Registry linked to population-based registries to minimize random and systematic measurement error biases. We find strong, significantly negative associations between schooling and hospitalization and mortality, but generally no causal effects of schooling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EDUCATION & demography
*EDUCATION research
*PUBLIC health research
*TWIN studies
*DEMOGRAPHIC research
*COMPARATIVE studies
*HOSPITAL care
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL cooperation
*MORTALITY
*REGRESSION analysis
*RESEARCH
*RESEARCH funding
*TWINS
*EVALUATION research
*EDUCATIONAL attainment
*CROSS-sectional method
MORTALITY risk factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00703370
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Demography (Springer Nature)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 67480790
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0052-1