example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

economic depression. We uncover three key facts based on our analysis of around 150 recessions and recoveries since 1870: (i …

which are typically followed by deeper recessions and slower recoveries. Housing finance has come to play a central role in …

concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …