Schooling and health: the cigarette connection.
Schooling and health: the cigarette connection.
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DOI：
10.1016/0167-6296(82)90001-7
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发表时间：
1982-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Fuchs, V R
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文献类型：
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作者：
Farrell, P;Fuchs, V R
受教育程度与健康状况显著相关，但这种关系是因果关系吗？这篇论文测试了这样一种假设，即学校教育会导致一种重要的影响健康的行为--吸烟--的差异。最显著的结果是，对于12至18岁完成学业的人来说，在24岁时观察到的就学与吸烟之间的强烈负相关是由于17岁时吸烟行为的差异，当时所有受试者仍在同一年级。从学校教育到吸烟的因果关系，以及从学校教育到健康的因果关系，都被拒绝了，转而支持“第三变量”假说。
Schooling is significantly correlated with health status, but is the relationship causal? This paper tests the hypothesis that schooling causes differences in an important health-affecting behavior: cigarette smoking. The most striking result is that for persons with 12 to 18 years of completed schooling, the strong negative relation between schooling and smoking observed at age 24 is accounted for by differences in smoking behavior at age 17, when all subjects were still in the same grade. Causality from schooling to smoking, and by implication from schooling to health, is rejected in favor of a 'third variable' hypothesis.