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

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 …

improvements in self-reported health. The association between area education and health increased greatly between 1990 and 2010 … less educated areas. Differences in health-related amenities, ranging from hospital quality to pollution, explain no more … than 17% of the area human capital spillovers on health. Over half of the correlation between area human capital and health …

Health insurance may play an important role not only in immediate access to care but in the management of chronic … disease, which would have implications for long-run care needs as well as health outcomes. Such causal connections are often … difficult to establish, but we use Oregon's 2008 Medicaid lottery to assess the management of diabetes and asthma, as well as …

showed that financial literacy is low among the young; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of …

scores in terms of a student's position in a widening distribution of knowledge. If a standard deviation in test scores in … later grades translates into a larger difference in knowledge, an intervention's effect on normalized test scores may fall … even as its effect on knowledge does not. We evaluate this hypothesis by fitting a model of education production to …

Mounting evidence documents a stark correlation between income and health, yet the causal mechanisms behind this … gradient are poorly understood. This paper examines the impact of access to expertise on health, and whether unequal access to … expertise contributes to the health-income gradient. Our empirical setting, Sweden, allows us to shut down inequality in formal …

produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have … more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the … allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe …