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This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic model of health, addiction, education, and wealth in order to understand … the well-established positive empirical relationship between education and health. In our model, agents make decisions on … cognitive and noncognitive skills and initial health and face endogenously-determined borrowing constraints. The consumption of …
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different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life. …
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an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …
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, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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