The Ability of Being Healthy

In this paper an effort has been made to identify the contribution of cognitive ability on health and how cognitive ability influences the effect of education on health. This paper is an addition to the recent paper that tried to disentangle this education and ability effect on mortality (Bijwaard, Van Kippersluis, & Veenman, 2013). A Dutch cohort study has been used with data of almost 3000 recipients all born around 1940. With help of multiple regression analysis, a comparison with presence and absence of two different measurements for intelligence has been done for various models. This research found a positive and significant effect of education on self-assessed health reports