Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 92-100
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index by 15% of a standard …