Journal Article

Personality and the education-health gradient: a note on ‘Understanding differences in health behaviors by education’

By Gabriella Conti and Christopher Hansman

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Publication date
Published in
Journal of Health Economics
Volume
32
Pages
pp. 480–485
Publisher
Elsevier Science BV
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.07.005
ISSN
1676296

Summary

We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the education–health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study. We show that, alternatively to the authors, conclusions, personality contributes to the education–health gradient to an extent nearly as large as that of cognition. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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