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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
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Exploiting a 1960s government trial in Copenhagen, we study the long-run and inter-generational effects of preventive care for toddlers. We combine administrative data with handwritten nurse records to document universal treatment take-up and positive health effects for treated children over the...
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …
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responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …
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education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …
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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … and education outcomes. We also find that what the literature has always done (using contemporaneous measure for parental …
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