This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …

paper we exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR … affects later life health and socioeconomic outcomes. …