Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes … health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical …

, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in … background and county of residence in early childhood to adult health and economic outcomes. The identification comes from …

Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas … production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth models. This paper constructs a measure of health …

results imply that public health policy that reduced childhood lead levels in the 1990s was responsible for modest but … standardized tests by 1 to 2 percentage points. Public health policy targeting lead thus has clear potential to improve academic …

Using a sample of sibling pairs from the PSID-CDS, we examine the effects of sibling health status on early educational … improving children's health through family multiplier effects …

Using data from the NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behaviors, measured by smoking and heavy … drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the … between education and health behaviors, this effect disappears once the models control for family fixed effects. Similarly …

following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset … Security benefits and defined benefit pension benefits--and through health capital that was accumulated before retirement. We …