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

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian … randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural experiment exploits a compulsory schooling reform in the UK in 1972 …

education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …-percentage points in reporting fair or poor health, 1-percentage points for underweight and 1.5-percentage points for smoking … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …. I combine a unique dataset on city-level destruction in Germany caused by Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with … city-by-cohort variation in the intensity of WWII destruction as a unique quasi-experiment. My findings suggest significant …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are …

yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational mobility with respect to educational attainment. This study … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …

paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU …

Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a …