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 …

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, future health care expenditure is likely the discriminant between nations who will … the last two decades, the health effects of trade liberalization are underexplored, with potentially wide implications for … reunification, this paper studies the causal effects of Chinese import competition on the health outcomes of individuals working in …

in good health. Policy-makers should at least invest in information and awareness campaigns of teachers and parents to …

This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health … of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. Results suggest that this increased … the effect spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older … ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the …

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 …We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …