We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth …-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across … specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive …

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health …

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … papers and their theoretical and empirical results. Recovery and contamination rates are functions of an individual's health …