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Author: Auld, M. Christopher
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Auld, M. Christopher Powell, Lisa M. |
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The Economics of Obesity: Research and Policy Implications from a Canada-U.S. Comparison Presented: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, John Deutsch Institute Conference at Queen's University, November 2005 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Canada, Canadian; Cognitive Ability; Cross-national Analysis; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Why do obesity rates differ across the United States and Canada, for which groups do they differ, and what do these differences suggest for policy and for research? In this paper, we use cross-sectional data on middle aged adults in the two countries to answer these questions. Note: The final version of this paper is published in a book: Health Services Restructuring: New Evidence and New Directions, edited by C.M. Beach, R.C. Chaykowski, S. Shortt, F. St-Hilaire, and A. Sweetman, 2006 (Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen’s University). |
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Auld, M. Christopher and Lisa M. Powell. "The Economics of Obesity: Research and Policy Implications from a Canada-U.S. Comparison." Presented: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, John Deutsch Institute Conference at Queen's University, November 2005. |
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Auld, M. Christopher Sidhu, Nirmal S. |
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Schooling, Cognitive Ability and Health Health Economics 14,10 (October 2005): 1019-1034. Also: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112092939/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Endogeneity; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same increase in health as two years of schooling and that cognitive ability accounts for roughly one quarter of the association between schooling and health. Both schooling and ability are strongly associated with health at low levels but less related or unrelated at high levels. Estimates treating schooling as endogenous to health suggest that much of the correlation between schooling and health is attributable to unobserved heterogeneity; the causal effect of schooling on health is large only for respondents with low levels of schooling and low cognitive ability. An implication is that policies which increase schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals. Subsidies to college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Unpublished version, June 2004: http://129.3.20.41/eps/hew/papers/0406/0406001.pdf |
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Auld, M. Christopher and Nirmal S. Sidhu. "Schooling, Cognitive Ability and Health." Health Economics 14,10 (October 2005): 1019-1034.
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