exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …

and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …

state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare …

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 …

education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient’s demand for health services, and that …