We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly …

It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling … attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may … attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health. Specifically, we estimate associations between a polygenic score …

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older … ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the …

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using … a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an …, satisfy the exclusion restriction by placing bounds on its net or direct effect on the health outcomes of individuals who are …