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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 …
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business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation … for mental health, little is still known about potential spillovers of these practices on other important life outcomes … meditation training delivered to university students on campus. As expected, the intervention improves students' mental health …
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is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and … show that each spouse's education has a favorable impact on women's mental health, but the effect of husbands' education …
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These …
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Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health … exercise controlling by education of different cohorts tells us that European populations would probably grow healthier as they …
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Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...
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. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer …Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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