What is it about?
The research examines the joint relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive skills and sducation in deternining health using panel data from the US NLSY97. Results indicate important effects of skills on health that confound the relationship between education and health and ultimately call into question the causal significance of advanced educational attainment for health over the life course.
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Why is it important?
Scholars across the social and biomedical sciences assert the causal significance of educational attainment for better health. Recent policy statements assert the logic of "education policy" as "health policy." Our work challenges both streams of thinking.
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This page is a summary of: Schooling, Skills, and Self-rated Health, Sociology of Education, June 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038040716653168.
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