I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …

Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for …

-old children going through the Peruvian education system. Most studies that have tried to determine the effect of economic shocks … on human capital (investment in education, skills training, health, and well-being) have focused on an analysis of …-out rate or the rate of ‘over-age schooling’ (of children at least one year older than the age expected for their grade). The …

Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families …, communities and children, including level of education and access to public services,. Public policy has a crucial role in … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …

children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …

at first birth. While previous studies find that earlier-born children are better off, this paper finds no effects. …