of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this … early life health and later life home care use. We also account for selective attrition. Our empirical findings show that … general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …