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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EDUCATION AND HEALTH: EVALUATING THEORIES AND EVIDENCE David M. Cutler Adriana Lleras-Muney Working Paper 12352 /papers/w 12352 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2006 This paper was prepared for the conference on The Health Effects of Non-Health Policies, organized by the National Poverty Center. We are grateful to Angus Deaton, and to the conference participants and editors for comments. We are also grateful to the National Institutes on Aging for research support. Tom Vogl provided outstanding research support for this proj ect. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2006 by David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney NBER Working Paper No. 12352 June 2006 JEL No. I1, I2 ABSTRACT There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education ‘gradient’ is found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect of education increases with increasing years of educat