We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … maternal age is a plausible mechanism behind our estimated impacts of school starting age on infant health. … school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression …

-in-differences models that leverage within-individual and across-cohort variation in shooting exposure within matched school groups to … grade in the two years following the event. We also find adverse long-term impacts on the likelihood of high school … student and school characteristics indicate that the detrimental impacts of shootings are universal, with most sub …

years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states along with the universe of hospitalizations … from 2000-2008 and daily county-level weather and pollution data. Smoking bans in bars and restaurants have been effective …

learning, we document stark changes in the prevalence of (cyber)bullying in Germany: Our results indicate that during school …We analyze the prevalence of bullying in Germany during COVID-19, both as a real-life phenomenon (in-person bullying …, or in our context: school bullying) and via social media and electronic communication tools (cyberbullying). Using Google …

, structuring of school classes and educational achievement in secondary school. For educational attainment, there was an increase … in achievement at the end of elementary school and greater equality of achievement at the transition without an increase … in social inequality. The structuring of school classes showed a decoupling of cognitive and social segregation. And for …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity - i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss - on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The …