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Education, Personal Control, Lifestyle and Health: A Human Capital Hypothesis
Abstract
The concept of human capital implies that education improves health because it increases effective agency. We propose that education's positive effects extend beyond jobs and earnings. Through education, individuals gain the ability to be effective agents in their own lives. Education improves physical functioning and self-reported health because it enhances a sense of personal control that encourages and enables a healthy lifestyle. We test three specific variants of the human-capital and learned-effectiveness hypothesis: (1) education enables people to coalesce health-producing behaviors into a coherent lifestyle, (2) a sense of control over outcomes in one's own life encourages a healthy lifestyle and conveys much of education's effect, and (3) educated parents inspire a healthy lifestyle in their children. Using data from a 1995 national telephone probability sample of U.S. households with 2,592 respondents, ages 18 to 95, a covariance structure model produces results consistent with the three hypotheses.
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- Authors
- Mirowsky, J., & Ross, C. E.
- Venue
- Research on Aging
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-07
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 415-449
- ISSN
- 0164-0275 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7573
- OpenAlex
- W1978576472
- Cited by
- 506
- References
- 105
- FWCI
- 4.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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