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 …

Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and … Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, including 15 countries from 2004 to … may improve current weight problems and maintain higher life standards among women in later life, so policymakers may …

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

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

-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in the reporting error in BMI, while there is …-reported BMI in studies that use it as an outcome, for example, to analyse socioeconomic gradients in obesity. However, our results … of collecting measured body weight and height data in large social science datasets. …

health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …