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Title: Effect of Educational Attainment on Mortality Rates and Cause of Death Structures
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Robinson, Kristen Noelle |
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Effect of Educational Attainment on Mortality Rates and Cause of Death Structures Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavior; Demography; Educational Attainment; Endogeneity; Health Care; Income; Life Course; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Mortality; Occupational Choice Researchers interested in mortality have found a strong inverse relationship to exist between educational attainment and risk of dying. Various explanations have been offered to explain this relationship, such as access to health care, lifestyle behaviors, and occupation and income. While all of these factors play a part in estimating how education affects mortality, education still retains a direct effect on total mortality. This analysis hypothesizes that educational attainment serves as a mechanism stratifying the resources available in society by rewarding those who are highly educated with the opportunities, resources, and rewards associated with low mortality rates. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men (1966-1990), hazard models are estimated to assess the effect education has on the risk of dying. The hazard models are constructed to represent early life course and late life course events, with both total mortality and cause-specific mortality as the dependent variables. The results of the total mortality models indicate that while educational attainment works primarily through alternative mechanisms, such as occupation and lifestyle behaviors, to effect mortality, a direct effect still remains. Modeling the same early and late life course events on cause-specific mortality suggests that this residual direct effect of education is most likely caused by the missing endogenous variable(s) linking education to stroke mortality. It is argued that once the missing variables are found, the direct effect of education, on both stroke and total mortality rates, will disappear. |
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Robinson, Kristen Noelle. Effect of Educational Attainment on Mortality Rates and Cause of Death Structures. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997. |