representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …

account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating … Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country whose health and educational systems underwent extensive destruction during the 1992-1995 war … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor …

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 …

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …