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In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high …'s schooling on infant birth outcomes in the years 1978-1999. Parents' schooling does cause favorable infant health outcomes. The …
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increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …
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increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …
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Childhood obesity around the world is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects...
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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 …Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is …
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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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-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 …This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …
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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 …Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is …
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
-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 …This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005349645