. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …

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 …

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 …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …, long-lasting detrimental effects on the human capital formation, health and labor market outcomes of Germans who were at … had lower self-reported health satisfaction in adulthood. Third, their future labor market earnings decreased by 6% on …

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 ….Under monotonicity, each IV identifies a LATE, with potentially different sets of compliers. The RoSLA affected the amount of education … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …