This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small …

health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … experience declines in health and well-being, engage in more risky behaviors, and have worse education and labor market outcomes …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

discuss alternative explanations of the correlation between health and schooling. The second is to test these explanations … is limited to one rather unique body of data and uses two measures of health that are far from ideal. The methodological … of current and past health and background characteristics become available …