The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins |
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Authors: | Petter Lundborg Anton Nilsson Dan-Olof Rooth |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Demography,Lund University,Lund,Sweden;2.IZA,Bonn,Germany;3.Centre for Economic Demography and Department of Economics,Lund University,Lund,Sweden;4.Department of Economics and Business Economics,Aarhus University,Aarhus,Denmark;5.SOFI, Stockholm University,Stockholm,Sweden;6.Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies,Linnaeus University,V?xj?,Sweden |
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Abstract: | Health and education are known to be highly correlated, but the mechanisms behind the relationship are not well understood. In particular, there is sparse evidence on whether adolescent health may influence educational attainment. Using a large registry dataset of twins, including comprehensive information on health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether health predicts final education within monozygotic (identical) twin pairs. We find no evidence of this and conclude that health in adolescence may not have an influence on the level of schooling. Instead, raw correlations between adolescent health and schooling appear to be driven by genes and twin-pair-specific environmental factors. |
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