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Why would upward trends in schooling make a nation healthier? The case of smoking in Twentieth Century France

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  • Fabrice Etilé
  • Andrew M Jones

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as absolute levels in explaining the education-health gradient. We show that relative education impacts smoking, when direct utility is relative, or when there is signalling in the labour market. We use data from the "Enquête sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages 2001" and a major reform of the education system, the Haby reform, to test the competing hypotheses. Descriptive statistics show that education has more effect on the decisions to start and quit for the birth cohorts affected by the reform. However, duration analysis reveals that, controlling for changes in policies, this result holds only for quitting.

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  • Fabrice Etilé & Andrew M Jones, 2005. "Why would upward trends in schooling make a nation healthier? The case of smoking in Twentieth Century France," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 05/08, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
    • Handle: RePEc:yor:hectdg:05/08
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    Keywords

    Smoking; Schooling;

    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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