Arbeitspapier
Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach
Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both depend on cognitive ability. We analyze the education-mortality gradient at ages 18-63 using Swedish register data. We focus on months lost due to a specific cause of death which solves the interdependence problem, and use a structural model that derives cognitive ability from military conscription IQ scores. We derive the educational gains in months lost and the selection effects for each cause of death, and quantify the selection contribution of observed characteristics and unobserved cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model that controls for observed IQ, primary education was associated with 6 months lost when compared to secondary education. In a structural model that accounts for cognitive ability the difference was 43% larger. In addition, the largest educational gains were achieved for the lowest education group in the reduction of external cause mortality. The educational gains in cardiovascular mortality was small, mainly due to large selection effects. These results suggest that educational differences in cause specific mortality may be biased by conventional Cox regression analyses.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10137
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Health and Inequality
Education and Inequality
- Subject
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cause specific mortality
causal effect of educational
cognitive ability
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bijwaard, Govert
Myrskylä, Mikko
Tynelius, Per
Rasmussen, Finn
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bijwaard, Govert
- Myrskylä, Mikko
- Tynelius, Per
- Rasmussen, Finn
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2016
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