TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bijwaard, Govert
AU  - Kippersluis, Hans van
AU  - Veenman, Justus
        TI  - Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
        PY  - 2013/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7648
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7648
        AB  - We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data come from a Dutch cohort born between 1937 and 1941, including detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the unconditional survival differences between educational groups are due to a 'selection effect', primarily on basis of cognitive ability. Conditional survival differences across those having finished just primary school and those entering secondary education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average.
        KW  - structural equation model
KW  - mortality
KW  - cognitive ability
KW  - education
KW  - duration model
        ER  -