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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
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Jurges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Salm, Martin – Economics of Education Review, 2011
During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of upper secondary schooling, which allows…
Descriptors: Obesity, Smoking, Health Behavior, Foreign Countries