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-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …
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response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …
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-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim …
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … in the state of poor health rather than dying …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and …
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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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for maternal education Our findings using the two approaches are similar. Higher maternal education improves infant health …We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth …
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Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …
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