Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to … various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we review what is known about … this link. We first document the facts about the relationship between education and health. The education 'gradient' is … found for both health behaviors and health status, though the former does not fully explain the latter. The effect of …

years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health …

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing …. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able …

twentieth century played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden …

Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes … health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical …

, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall … measure of health) across generations using a unique dataset containing information about more than 26 million families … health. Moreover, this correlation remained low throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries despite dramatic changes in …