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. …

is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …

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

, 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. …

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 …

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …

can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily …

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the …