of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …

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 …

This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …

definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health … estimation of peer effects. In particular, we show that peer effects estimates on educational achievement, smoking, sexual … Survey (Add Health) to construct two network definitions that are less ad hoc than the school-grade cohorts commonly used in …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions – diagnosed by … educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners’ behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner’s past smoking, which is …