We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

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 …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …

education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …

returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …