Arbeitspapier

Health, Wealth and Happiness: Why pursue a Higher Education?

We explore the effect of schooling on health, wealth and happiness for a cohort of Dutch individuals born around 1940. We also use observations on childhood IQ and family background. The most fortunate group is the group with a non-vocational intermediate level education: they score highest on health, wealth and happiness. We find that IQ affects health, but not wealth or happiness. Family background level increases wealth, but neither health nor happiness. With a father who worked independently, health, wealth and happiness are higher.Women are a miracle: compared to men, they are less wealthy, equally healthy but they are definitely happier.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 97-034/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hartog, Joop
Oosterbeek, Hessel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
1997

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hartog, Joop
  • Oosterbeek, Hessel
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 1997

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