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Quality of schooling and inequality of opportunity in health

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:45 authored by Andrew M Jones, Nigel Rice, Pedro Rosa Dias
This paper explores the role of quality of schooling as a source of inequality of opportunity in health. Substantiating earlier literature that links differences in education to health disparities, the paper uses variation in quality of schooling to test for inequality of opportunity in health. Analysis of the 1958 NCDS cohort exploits the variation in type and quality of schools generated by the comprehensive schooling reforms in England and Wales. The analysis provides evidence of a statistically significant and economically sizable association between some dimensions of quality of education and a range of health and health-related outcomes. For some outcomes the association persists, over and above the effects of measured ability, social development, academic qualifications and adult socioeconomic status and lifestyle.

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  • Published

Journal

Empirical Economics

ISSN

1435-8921

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Issue

2

Volume

42

Page range

369-394

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  • Economics Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-11-07

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