Generally it is expected that higher education is associated with
better health, although this may not always be the case (for
example higher education for men in China is associated with more
overweight, Lei et al., 2014). Many studies of SES-depressive
symptom associations find that persons with higher schooling
tend to suffer less from depressive symptoms, similar to what is
found for other health outcomes (see the surveys in Lorant et al.,
2003; Muntaner et al., 2004). Much of this literature is for western,
industrialized countries.