updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation …, marital status, and health, and perform several sensitivity analyses to test the robustness of our results. We decompose … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …

lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a …

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However … public provision of education. The political process that I analyse involves endogenous parties. Parties have a unique role … of different groups in society to compromise with one another. I find that public provision of education arises as an …