There’s a familiar correlation in social science: more education is associated with increased health in society. Now a WSU researcher will use a new grant from the Evidence for Action Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine whether more education can actually contribute to better health later in life.
Ben Cowan, an associate professor in the School of Economic Sciences, leads the study with colleague Nathan Tefft at Bates College in Maine. Cowan said the dramatic increase in two‑year colleges from 1960 to 1990 is an ideal experiment to study the correlation.
“We want to focus on two‑year colleges because it’s a great way to differentiate populations,” Cowan explained. “States increased their funding to two‑year institutions at different times over that span of time, and some states didn’t really expand them very much. So, we can compare results between states and in different time periods.”
[For more on this story by Scott Weybright, go to https://news.wsu.edu/2019/01/2...explored-researcher/]
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