Better Health Care Means Better Student Test Scores
This is David Wessel, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
A new study links improvements in test scores of black teenagers from the South in the 1980s to improved health care they received as children after Southern hospitals were integrated in the 1960s. The bottom line, in a working paper circulated by the Chicago Fed, is this: “Improved post-neonatal health among blacks born between the early 1960s and early 1970s…led to long-term improvements in the academic and cognitive skills of these cohorts as teenagers.”
Interesting.
Isn’t this all based on inference? They didn’t really find a direct link bewtween health care and educational achievement did they?
I thought the prevailing wisdom is that better education leads to better health outcomes. (or maybe better genes is highly correlated with educational achievement and improved health status)