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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …
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the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health … discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of …
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In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …
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We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …
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using household indicators on expenditures, educational level, health status and land holdings. The purpose is to assess …
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education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on the children's education … works through improving children's skills and health. …
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health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and …This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an … instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and …
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education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced … markets with a larger female advantage in education men had fewer children and were less likely to be in a couple by age 40. I …
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