The education-health gradient: Revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills.
J Health Econ
; 97: 102911, 2024 Sep.
Article
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| ID: mdl-38924908
ABSTRACT
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? We find that the gradient in health behaviors and outcomes is reduced by about 15 to 50% from accounting for fine-grained personality facets and up to another 50% from Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five scales, however, have a much smaller contribution to the gradient. We use sibling-fixed effects to net out the contribution from genes and shared childhood environment, decomposing the gradient into its components with an order-invariant method. We rely on a large survey (N = 28,261) linked to high-quality Danish administrative registers with information on parental background and objectively measured diagnoses and care use. Accounting for Locus of Control yields the strongest gradient reduction in self-rated health status and objective diagnoses (30%-50%), and in health behaviors the most important factor is Extraversion, a skill that has been shown to be malleable in interventions.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Escolaridade
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Econ
Assunto da revista:
HOSPITAIS
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Holanda