ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses …

, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly …Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …

the causes and effects of long-term changes in the health of the European populations. The paper surveys methods which had …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …, police protection, and so on. The mode of provision (private or public) affects a supplier’s incentive to acquire human …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …