We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children’s education. This result holds …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …

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 …

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 …

. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality …. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the 1960s in … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …