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. 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 …
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. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744655
and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …
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and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279264
education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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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. …
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different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …
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