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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 97-034/3
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hartog, Joop
Oosterbeek, Hessel
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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1997
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hartog, Joop
- Oosterbeek, Hessel
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 1997
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