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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …
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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. …
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, 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 …
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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. …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …
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also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …. This result is consistent with historical evidence that longevity began to increase long before education did. Our theory …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
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