The effect of education on adult mortality, health, and income: triangulating across genetic and policy reforms

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1 On average, educated people are healthier, wealthier and have higher life expectancy than those with less education. Numerous studies have attempted to determine whether these differences are caused by education, or are merely correlated with it and are ultimately caused by another factor. Previous studies have used a range of natural experiments to provide causal evidence. Here we exploit two natural experiment...

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• Causality
• Educational Status
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Genotype
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Schools

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Literature Corpus work

dba21a83-6685-5758-b176-7573d67899cf

DOI

10.1101/250068