consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …