Abstract:

Health and education are two of the fundamental factors of human capital. Besides, there are positive effect on human capital, they might create positive influence on each others. Health might provide some educational contributions such as; attendance, absenteeism and graduate. On the other side, education also lead to individual to be more consicient to sustain and to improve their health. In context, this paper invesitgates health’s positive effect on education by using ARDL Bound Test Approach in Turkey. According to data availability, annual data is used for the period of 19752014. In the analysis, health data that used are number of doctors per thousand, current health expenditure per person, life expectancy on birth and alcohol consumption per capita over fifteen years are used whereas general schooling rate is preferred for education indicators.According to the results of the analysis, there is a negative relationship between the current health expenditure per capita in the short term and the schooling rate.In the long term, it was determined that there was a negative relationship between all of the health variables that used in model and the schooling rate

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