Yang Zheyu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-52). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Conceptual foundations and empirical implications --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Evidence of the direct casual effect of schooling on health --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Explanations of the schooling-health correlation --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4 --- Literature review on twins data --- p.25 / Chapter 3 --- Empirical Specification --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1 --- Omitted Variable Bias (Selection Effect) --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Model --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Fixed-Effect (FE) Model --- p.30 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Generalized Least Squares (GLS) Model --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2 --- Measurement Error --- p.32 / Chapter 4 --- Data --- p.34 / Chapter 5 --- Empirical Results --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1 --- Allocative Efficiency Hypothesis Test --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2 --- Productive Efficiency Hypothesis Test --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3 --- Returns to health --- p.44 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusions --- p.45 / Chapter 7 --- Bibliography --- p.46 / Table 1: Summary of the evidence for correlation between education and SRH amongst different groups of individuals --- p.53 / Table 2: Descriptive Statistics --- p.54 / Table 3: Correlation between Health Indicators --- p.55 / Table 4.1: The Impact of Education on Physical Exercise Participation --- p.56 / Table 4.2: The Impact of Education on Smoking Consumption --- p.57 / Table 4.3: The Impact of Education on Alcohol Consumption --- p.58 / Table 5.1: OLS and FE Estimation of the Impact of Education on SRH --- p.59 / Table 5.2: IV Estimation of the Impact of Education on SRH --- p.60 / Table 5.3: GLS Estimation of the Impact of Education on SRH --- p.61 / Table 6.1: OLS and FE Estimation of the Impact of Education on BMI. --- p.62 / Table 6.2: IV Estimation of the Impact of Education on BMI --- p.63 / Table 7.1: OLS and FE Estimation of the Impact of Education on Symptom Occurrence --- p.64 / Table 7.2: IV Estimation of the Impact of Education on Symptom Occurrence --- p.65 / Table 8: Probit Estimation of the Impact of Education on Symptom Occurrence --- p.66 / Table 9: Ordered Logit Estimation of the Impact of Education on SRH. --- p.67 / Table 10.1: OLS and FE Estimation of the Impact of Education Level on SRH --- p.68 / Table 10.2: IV Estimation of the Impact of Education Level on SRH --- p.69 / Table 11.1: OLS and FE Estimation of the Impact of Education Level on Symptom Occurrence --- p.70 / Table 11.2: IV Estimation of the Impact of Education Level on Symptom Occurrence --- p.71 / Table 12: OLS and FE Estimation of the Returns to SRH --- p.72
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325720 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Contributors | Yang, Zheyu., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Economics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, 72 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Coverage | China, China, China, China, China, China |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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