outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …

analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly … no causality from wealth to husband's or wife's health, the tests in the dynamic panel data model do not provide evidence … of wealth-health causality. On the other hand, both methodologies lead to strong evidence of causal effects from both …

Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college … degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

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 …