The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income: evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age.
Neil Martin DaviesMatt DicksonGeorge Davey SmithFrank WindmeijerGerard J van den BergPublished in: International journal of epidemiology (2023)
Previous studies have suggested that the differences in outcomes associated with education may be due to confounding. However, the two independent sources of exogenous variation we exploit largely imply consistent causal effects of education on outcomes later in life.