| Abstract | More and more scholars pay attention to impacts of education on health. However, although the positive correlation between education and health has been unanimously found, there exists a big controversy of whether there is a causality relationship between them. Using 1-in-100 sample data of 2005, the current paper demonstrates the correlation and causation relationship between education and health at old age in China. Firstly, based on a framework of OLS, we test on the empirical relationship between education and health at old age, and we find a significant positive relationship between them. Secondly, as China’s Great Famine of 1959-1961 is an exogenous shock to education, the current paper uses the Great Famine as an instrumental variable to tests on the causation relationship between education and health at old age. Based on two stage least square (2SLS) and regression discontinuity design (RDD), the empirical results find there existing a significant causality from education to male health at old age, and there is no causation relationship between education and female health at old age. |