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ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2024

Education and medication use later in life and the role of intelligence.

Gianmaria Niccodemi, Govert Bijwaard

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Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gianmaria NiccodemiVIDAS, Milan, Italy. gi.niccodemi@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-6823
Govert BijwaardNetherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW)/University of Groningen, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Azienda Ospedaliera Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico · ITUniversity of Groningen · NL

Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health grant RO1-AG028593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigate the association between education and disease-specific medications in old age, prescribed by medical doctors, accounting for confounders and how this association is shaped by intelligence. We use administrative data on men including prescribed medication records. To account for endogeneity of education we estimate a structural model, consisting of (i) an ordered probit for educational attainment, (ii) a Gompertz mortality model for survival up to old age, (iii) a probit model for prescribed medications in old age, (iv) a measurement system using IQ tests to identify latent intelligence. The results suggest a strong effect of education on prescribed medications for most medications, except for prescribed medication for cardiac diseases and for depression and anxiety.

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IntelligenceEducational StatusHumansMaleEducational inequalityIntelligenceMedication useStructural equation model

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