【主讲】钟海 助教授 (中央财经大学)
【主题】Does a college education cause better health and health behaviors?
【时间】2013年6月5日 (周三) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼710室
【语言】英文
【摘要】In this paper, we exploit the recent higher education expansion in China to apply a regression discontinuity method to identify the causal effects of higher education on health and health behaviors. We do not find causal effect of a college education on better smoking and drinking behaviors. For our selected measures of health, we do not find causal effect of a college education on better self-assessed health, less chance of having illness in the past 3 months, and keeping normal body weight; however, we find that a college education could significantly reduce the probability of having hypertension.
