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The health effects of education: a meta-analysis
Carina A Furnée1, Wim Groot, Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink
1Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, BEOZ, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. c.furnee@beoz.unimaas.nl
Background:
There is an abundance of empirical evidence, mainly from the epidemiological and social science literature, on the relation between education and health. Until now a meta-analysis of the relation between education and health was not available. This article presents a meta-analysis of studies that use self- reported health as an outcome variable to quantify the effect of education on health.
Methods:
Meta-analysis using a random and a fixed-effects model to quantify the marginal effect of education on self-reported health.
Results:
The results of the meta-analysis show that the quality adjusted life years weight (QALYweight) of a year of education is approximately 0.036. Some tentative calculations suggest that the cost-benefit ratio of investments in education on health is highly positive.
Conclusion:
For public policy this implies that a more integrated approach to education and health policies should be taken.
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