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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201761
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726723
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Poverty and Transitions in Health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884176
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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content of these diets with modern measures of adequacy. We find a fairly steep gradient of nutritional attainment relative to economic class, with high levels of vitamin and mineral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163485
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183122
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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195833
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The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health
Bloom, David E.; Fink, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
may promote economic well-being – via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884394
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Education, Health and Wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752228
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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884259
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884327