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Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self … why the effect of education on income, health and health behaviors varies is not well understood. We build on previous …, compared to those graduating in good times. We investigate whether more educated individuals suffer smaller income and health …
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This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status -- education, financial resources, rank, and race and ethnicity -- paying particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health...
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income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …
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We document the correlations between early childhood health (as proxied by height) and educational attainment and investigate the labor market and wealth returns to height for United States cohorts born between 1820 and 1990. The nineteenth century was characterized by low investments in height...
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-- education is related to income or occupational choice -- explain only a part of the education effect. We suggest that increasing …
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Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able than to take advantage of technological advances in...
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Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical evidence. We then review evidence on the causal...
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This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to …
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