. 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 … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … data, we leverage a 1972 compulsory schooling reform within the United Kingdom which produced a large increase in … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle - with the largest health improvements occurring among men …

increase physical activity in everyday life need to weigh the health and well-being benefits against the probability of …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature … that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including …

mother is well-educated. -- Early-life conditions ; migration ; parental education ; adult health ; height retardation ; age …We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

interfered with work. A counterfactual mandate to use HAART improves health but increases inequality because low-education … individuals work less. A counterfactual non-labor income subsidy increases HAART adoption and improves health among lower-education …Health-maximizing and welfare-maximizing behaviors can be at odds, especially among disadvantaged groups, generating …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … ages 0–12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education. …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …