Journal article
Higher Education and Health Investments: Does More Schooling Affect Preventive Health Care Use?
Journal of human capital, Vol.3(2), pp.144-176
01/01/2009
DOI: 10.1086/645090
PMCID: PMC3285406
PMID: 22368727
Abstract
While it is well-known that individuals with higher levels of education consume more preventive medical care, there are several potential explanations for this stylized fact. These explanations include causal and non-causal mechanisms, and distinguishing among explanations is relevant for accessing the importance of educational spillovers on lifetime health outcomes as well as uncovering the determinants of preventive care. In this paper, we use regression analysis, sibling fixed effects, and matching estimators to examine the impact of education on preventive care. In particular, we use a cohort of 10,000 Wisconsin high school graduates that has been followed for nearly 50 years and find evidence that attending college is associated with an increase in the likelihood of using several types of preventive care by approximately five to fifteen percent for college attendees in the early 1960s. We also find that greater education may influence preventive care partly through occupational channels and access to care. These findings suggest that increases in education have the potential to spillover on long-term health choices.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Higher Education and Health Investments: Does More Schooling Affect Preventive Health Care Use?
- Creators
- Jason M. Fletcher - Yale UniversityDavid E. Frisvold - Yale University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of human capital, Vol.3(2), pp.144-176
- DOI
- 10.1086/645090
- PMID
- 22368727
- PMCID
- PMC3285406
- ISSN
- 1932-8575
- eISSN
- 1932-8664
- Grant note
- R01 AG027045-01 || AG / National Institute on Aging : NIA R01 AG009775-08 || AG / National Institute on Aging : NIA R01 AG009775-10 || AG / National Institute on Aging : NIA P01 AG021079-01 || AG / National Institute on Aging : NIA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283565302771
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