order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores … to be overweight, to be obese, and to have high blood pressure and high triglycerides. So, unlike education or earnings … unaffected by conditioning on education and earnings, suggesting that these are not the only important pathways to health …

IQ scores, education, earnings, and adult height, as well as whether these effects persist into the next generation. We … scores of men aged 18. Moreover, radiation exposure leads to declines in education attainment, high school completion, and …

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …