@techreport{NBERw8986,
 title = "The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States",
 author = "Adriana Lleras-Muney",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "8986",
 year = "2002",
 month = "June",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8986",
 abstract = {Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature.},
}