Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100193 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 429
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
Using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, I find that exogenous changes in the schooling of men born into lower social class families in Ireland during the late 1940s and 1950s had a statistically significant positive effect on their self-reported health in later life. I also find that the increased level of schooling had a statistically significant positive effect on physical exercise in later life as well as reducing the probability of an individual experiencing certain non-cardiovascular chronic conditions. However no statistically significant effect was found in relation to cardiovascular disease, self-rated mental health, smoking behaviour or self-reported and objectively measured memory although there is a high degree of imprecision in these estimates.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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