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 …

focusing on the role of education. Female CUA is found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger … decompositions reveal that the improvement in education across cohorts is the main correlate of the improved generational CUA gap …. Health knowledge, especially knowledge that the use of condoms can help avoid contracting HIV/AIDS, is found to be part of …

mental health among children and adolescents in high-income countries. Subject to severe methodological challenges, most …. High-quality evidence on the impact on mental health is scarce and the results are mixed, but there are some indications …

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …

aging population. Using detailed information about health from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) linked with state …-level HCBS policy expenditures, we show that HCBS is beneficial to improve general health outcomes of older individuals. Our … health status, mitigating functional mobility limitations, showing better emotional feelings, and increasing cognitive skills …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age … benefits. We use plausibly exogenous policy expenditure across states over time linked with detailed health information from … the restricted Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to identify the causal effects of HCBS on general health, physical health …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and speciftc mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting signiftcant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …