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 …Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for …

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

new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and first-birth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …

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 over the working life of individuals. We find evidence that employees with tertiary education have steeper experience … profiles than employees with upper secondary or compulsory education. Hence, education provides not only an initial labor … in earnings growth by education are lower in countries with a higher level of corporatism and higher in countries which …