presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …

-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …