education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that …Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … inequality in government output (health expenditure per capita) and outcome (health system satisfaction) during expansion of … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom … satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or … purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to partially satisfy heterogeneous preferences for health care, and …

This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS …), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and … crowds out public provision, and results in lower overall health care provision. While the health authority can mitigate this …

constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform—the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … village health and sanitation committees—to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …

incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …