The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
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- Petter Lundborg, 0000. "The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 08-027/3, Tinbergen Institute.
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Keywords
twins; schooling; education; health production; returns to education; siblings; ability bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2008-03-25 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2008-03-25 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2008-03-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2008-03-25 (Labour Economics)
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