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Education Affects Health: Empirical Evidence from Turkey

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Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 1

Part of the book series: Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics ((EBES,volume 2/1))

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This study examines whether there is a relation between education index and government health expenditures for Turkey between 1980 and 2012 using the Kapetanios Unit Root Test based on structural breaks, the Maki Cointegration Test and Causality Analysis based on Vector Error Correction Model. Empirical practices in the study showed that series were stationary in first differences and there is a long-term relation between them. As a result of the causality analysis, unidirectional causality was determined from education to health.

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  1. Public Finance, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

    Furkan Besel & Fatih Yardimcioglu

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  1. Department of Labor Economics, Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Economics, Uskudar - Istanbul, Turkey

    Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin

  2. MUFG Union Bank, San Francisco, California, USA

    Hakan Danis

  3. Unalan Mah. Unalan Sok., Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ender Demir

  4. Eurasia Business & Economic Society, Fatih Istanbul, Turkey

    Ugur Can

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Besel, F., Yardimcioglu, F. (2016). Education Affects Health: Empirical Evidence from Turkey. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Can, U. (eds) Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 1. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 2/1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22596-8_27

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