We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a …

effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV … impact of years of schooling on BMI with one relying on a broader measure of education, i.e. individual standardized … cognitive tests, and show that the current focus in the literature on years of schooling as the measure of education is not …

the measure of education we show that the current focus in the literature on years of schooling is not misplaced. We also … investigate whether the response to changes in compulsory education is heterogeneous, and find that the protective effect of …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

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 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … education has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

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 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

discuss possible mechanisms justifying both the protective role of education and the gender difference in this role. We argue …