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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932178
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824328
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The causal effect of education on body mass : evidence from Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - In: Journal of labor economics 31 (2013) 1, pp. 195-225
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714592
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The Causal Effect of Education on Body Mass : Evidence from Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2013
discuss possible mechanisms justifying both the protective role of education and the gender difference in this role. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159514
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149515
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2018
We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790876
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600905
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261
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The causal effect of education on health: what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 3, pp. 314-336
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541455