We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

severely upward biased due to underlying confounders, exaggerating the contribution of income and education to health … inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without … substantial bias implying that health is caused by socioeconomic outcomes, which is hard to prove. This article contributes to the …

education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on the children's education … works through improving children's skills and health. …

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health … non-significant effects. Our results point to a complex link between education and health. On the one hand, higher … education channels individuals into some healthy behaviors and better health outcomes namely healthy eating, more physical …

Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent … mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects … mental health. We use Swedish administrative data (N=576,285) to link variation in gender composition across classrooms …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …

West Bank. Further, the study proposes an assessment of the child's mental health problems by the Strengths and …

-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better … health outcomes. …

effect of education on smoking. …