Education and the Prevalence of Pain

Steven J. Atlas, Jonathan S. Skinner

NBER Working Paper No. 14964
Issued in May 2009

---- Acknowledgments ----

We thank Amitabh Chandra, Joyce DeLeo, Edward Glaeser, Kathy Stroffolino, James Weinstein, and participants at the NBER Conference on Aging in May 2007 for insightful comments and suggestions. Samuel Marshall provided superb research assistance. We are grateful to NIAMS (P60 - AR048094), the National Institute on Aging (PO1- AG19783), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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