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Title: The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Health-Education Nexus
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Sidhu, Nirmal S. |
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The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Health-Education Nexus M.A. Thesis, University of Calgary (Canada), 2004. MAI 43/02, p. 419, Apr 2005 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Endogeneity; Health Factors; Schooling This thesis, using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), examines the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus and tries to estimate the effect of cognitive ability on health. The results of our study suggest that though schooling is still associated with health, this association is reduced by about half with inclusion of cognitive ability. The effect of cognitive ability on health is more stable and robust to different measures of health. Therefore, the well-documented association between health and schooling is partially attributable to cognitive ability. However, when schooling is treated as endogenous to health, cognitive ability is no longer statistically related to health but schooling appears to cause better health. We also find that studies that do not control for cognitive ability in the schooling equation, or in both the schooling and the health equation, tend to overestimate the association between schooling and health. |
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Sidhu, Nirmal S. The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Health-Education Nexus. M.A. Thesis, University of Calgary (Canada), 2004. MAI 43/02, p. 419, Apr 2005. |