eprintid: 10018651
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
userid: 587
source: pure
dir: disk0/00/01/86/51
datestamp: 2014-06-11 09:54:01
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type: report
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creators_name: Feinstein, Leon
title: Quantitative Estimates of the Social Benefits of Learning 2: Health (Depression and Obesity) [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 6]
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
abstract: In this report, information from the latest sweeps of the UK national cohorts is used to estimate the magnitude of the effects of learning on depression and obesity. The estimated effects of education have then been linked to studies of the social costs of ill health, in order to make progress in the task of evaluating the health benefits of learning. Findings show that the sizable differences in health observed for those with different levels of education are partially due to the effects of education and are not due solely to differences that precede or explain education. Moreover, these differences in health outcomes are important from a perspective of public finance as well as in terms of equity and wider social well-being.
date: 2002-10
date_type: published
publisher: Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, University of London
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 60
refereed: FALSE
isbn: 1898453373
citation:        Feinstein, Leon;         (2002)    Quantitative Estimates of the Social Benefits of Learning 2: Health (Depression and Obesity) [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 6].                    Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, University of London       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10018651/1/WBLResRep6.pdf