Does schooling affect health behavior? Evidence from the educational expansion in Western Germany

Hendrik Jürges; Steffen Reinhold; Martin Salm

Economics of Education Review Vol. 30, No. 5 (October 2011) pp. 862–872

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....

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