EDUCATIONS ROLE IN EXPLAINING DIABETIC HEALTH INVESTMENT DIFFERENTIALS

This paper studies the relationship between education and diabetic hea lth investment. The empirical work focuses on how education affects he ath investment proxies such as smoking propensities, blood sugar contr ol and diet. Increased education has a positive impact on diabetic hea lth investment, even after controlling for IQ and available informatio n, but the health investments of diabetics are less responsive to incr eases in education than are those of non-diabetics. [JEL I12, I20] (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.