Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health.This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health.I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates.I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education.The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature.
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