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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …
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the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health … discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of …
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explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192101
paper we exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR … affects later life health and socioeconomic outcomes. …
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Anecdotally, physical activity appears to be a textbook example of time inconsistency, which is the failure to follow through on ex-ante preferences and plans. Interestingly, our longitudinal survey finds that, over a fortnight, exercising more than preferred/planned is actually more prevalent...
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causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …. The non-linearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine's effect on later life health found in … previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life leads to worse health among females fifty …
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Population-based screening can prevent disease but also induce false positives to use low-value healthcare. Using data on individuals aged 40+ in rural South Africa and a multidimensional regression discontinuity design, we estimate effects of clinical referral based on blood pressure (BP) above...
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