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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
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For one more year with you”: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268370
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Immigrant welfare receipt across Europe
Barrett, Alan; Maître, Bertrand - 2011
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether … protecting immigrants from poverty across Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278744
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COVID-19 and the European Education Performance Decline: A Focus on Primary School Children's Reading Achievement between 2016 and 2021
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Granato, Silvia - 2023
education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance … Europe by first comparing countries' education distributions between 2016 and 2021 and second by investigating changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469616
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Loneliness and Social Isolation: An Unequally Shared Burden in Europe
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Barjaková, Martina; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …-COVID-19 period. The empirical results indicate that 8.6% of the adult population in Europe suffer from frequent loneliness and … 20.8% from social isolation, with eastern Europe recording the highest prevalence of both phenomena. Trends over time do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597391
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Learning Loss and Educational Inequalities in Europe: Mapping the Potential Consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis
Blaskó, Zsuzsa; da Costa, Patricia; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
-19 crisis across Europe. We obtain the relative trajectories of children's learning loss and its unequal distribution … on 4th graders' school achievements indicate that throughout Europe educational inequalities between and within countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597444
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278192
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"For One More Year with You": Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
brunello, giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Fort, Margherita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703505
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496997