We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary … increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes …

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe … education generates an improvement in health knowledge for those who ultimately attend college. For those with high school as … the terminal degree, no relationship is found between education and health knowledge. These results imply that the …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … instrument for education, we find that for women ages 18-30, education has no impact on self-reported health, BMI, overweight …

. We find little evidence of overall improvements in child 24-hour nutritional intake, health, behavior or achievement …, with some evidence of health and behavior improvements among specific subpopulations. …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …