We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among … high school graduates may impact their health trajectory, health care consumption and life expectancy. We find large …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors … considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercising and one health outcome namely, the body …

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 …

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 …

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief …

individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences using competing discounting specifications. With the formulation that best …

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …