There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic … educational, economic, and health outcomes …

This paper examines the influence of health conditions on academic performance during adolescence. To account for the … endogeneity of health outcomes and their interactions with risky behaviors we exploit natural variation within a set of genetic … statistical properties for ADHD, depression and obesity. They help to reveal a new dynamism from poor health to lower academic …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

discuss alternative explanations of the correlation between health and schooling. The second is to test these explanations … is limited to one rather unique body of data and uses two measures of health that are far from ideal. The methodological … of current and past health and background characteristics become available …

much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is …