We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

This paper explores the long-run health benefits of education for longevity. Using mortality data from the Social … time-varying local confounders. This paper adds to the literature on the health and social benefits of education …

effects on cardiovascular health as well as the literature linking education with later mortality … exists that examines this health shock on mortality because of lack of available data. This paper uses newly released files …A growing literature in economics and other disciplines has tied exposure to early health shocks, particularly in utero …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in … education. We also provide suggestive evidence that reductions in adulthood income are a likely mechanism channel …