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Direct linkSchafer, Markus H.; Wilkinson, Lindsay R.; Ferraro, Kenneth F. – Social Forces, 2013
College-educated adults are healthier than other people in the United States, but selection bias complicates our understanding of how education influences health. This article focuses on the possibility that the health benefits of college may vary according to childhood (mis)fortune and people's propensity to attain a college degree in the first…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Children, Higher Education, Advantaged
