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 … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …

neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking … investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to …

I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education … on health. Controlling for cohort, school track and Federal states fixed effects, which fully control for the assignment … into treatment, reveals no differences in body weight, mental or physical health between affected and non …

The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …

find a strong positive correlation between education and health, both self-rated and measured by blood fibrinogen and C …Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

to an individual's health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour …

’s health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour substantially, affecting …

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle – with the largest health improvements occurring among men …

This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work … contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …