I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US …. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable …

In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West …. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health and health …

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the … children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from "objectively measured" health problems - except for …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not … necessarily with respect to health-related behavior …

This paper uses data from SHARE 2004 to analyze one possible causal pathway of the health-wealth gradient, namely … differences in the marginal propensity to save and spend across different health states. Conditional on age and current wealth, I … find weak relationships between health and the intended use of a hypothetical windfall gift as well bequest expectations …

Education is arguably the most important correlate of health We study education-related inequality in the physical of … suggest that education is strongly correlated with health both across and within countries. Education-related inequality in … health is larger in Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxon countries than in western European countries. We find no evidence of a …

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the … children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from ‘objectively measured’ health problems - except for …