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Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
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We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
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consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …
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We use Turkey’s 1997 Education Law that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8years to study the effect of education on women’s fertility and empowerment. Using an instrumental variables methodology, we find that a 10 percentage-point increase in the proportion of ever-married women with...
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Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401626
We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984503
increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269876
consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005349645
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