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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

Petter Lundborg

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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

The health-schooling relationship: Evidence from Swedish twins

Author

  • Anton Nilsson
  • Dan-Olof Rooth
  • Petter Lundborg

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

1191-1215

Publication/Series

Journal of Population Economics

Volume

29

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • TwinsTwin-fixed effects
  • Education
  • Health Specific conditions
  • I10
  • I24
  • I21
  • I14

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0933-1433