of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

compulsory schooling is completed. This Education gap persists into adulthood. Further, we examine the role of health …-related knowledge (proxied by working in health-related occupations) and it hardly explains smoking decisions. Our findings suggest that … differences in smoking. Only small parts of the education gap seem to be caused by general or health-specific education. The …

2004 erstmals erhobene Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und der Pretest 2005 des Sozio … einen deutlich positiven Zusammenhang zwischen Gesundheit und Handgreifkraft und weisen zudem darauf hin, dass es … verschiedene eigenständige Dimensionen von Gesundheit sind, die zum Teil unabhängig vom Alter der Probanden mit der Greifkraft …