There is little theoretical and empirical research on the effects of education on health over the life cycle. In this … article, we extend the Grossman (1972) model of the demand for health and use the extended model to analyze the effect of … education on health at different ages. The main conclusion from our model is that it is unlikely that the relationship between …

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our …

We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly education and labor market … outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies that link childhood health to later-life outcomes. The main … themes we focus on are in-utero exposures, birthweight, physical health and nutrition, mental health, and the environment. In …

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …