and health decisions for data on women’s self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …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 …

and health decisions for data on women´s self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …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 …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle – with the largest health improvements occurring among men …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also … explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …