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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012

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 behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....

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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010

We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

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

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

) females than among females with BMI above 30. -- Obesity ; human capital ; Europe …

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010 - This version: July 16, 2010

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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …

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