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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013

Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive ability does not significantly alter the...

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Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Nilsson, J. Peter - 2008

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...

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Health capital and the prenatal environment: The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy

Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we and prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan in the first month of gestation is...

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Accounting for the effect of health on economic growth

Weil, David N. - 2005

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ a variety of methods to construct estimates of the return to health, which I combine with crosscountry and historical...

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How much of cross-country income variation is explained by health?

Shastry, Gauri Kartini; Weil, David N. - 2003

We use development accounting techniques to assess the contribution of health to differences in income per capita among countries. Rather than rely on regressions in aggregate data, we build up estimates of the effect of health starting from microeconomic data. We examine both a particular...

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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies: Projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021

2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …. Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly. This … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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