% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw19222, title = "The Effect of College Education on Health", author = "Buckles, Kasey and Hagemann, Andreas and Malamud, Ofer and Morrill, Melinda S and Wozniak, Abigail K", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "19222", year = "2013", month = "July", doi = {10.3386/w19222}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w19222", abstract = {We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality by 28 percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the Census, ACS, and NHIS.}, }