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. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemerââ …‚¬â„¢s model of equality of opportunity. We apply this model to the National Child Development Study (NCDS) cohort, who, since … their schooling lay within the transition period of the comprehensive education reform in England and Wales, attended …
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earlier literature that links differences in education to health disparities, the paper uses variation in quality of schooling … to test for inequality of opportunity in health. Analysis of the 1958 NCDS cohort exploits the variation in type and … statistically significant and economically sizable association between some dimensions of quality of education and a range of health …
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and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …
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education–health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors, conclusions, personality contributes to the education–health gradient to an …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695870
's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong effects on …In this paper, we use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental education on sonsâ … such as cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant and …
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efficiency of provinces and states in improving health and education outcomes. Stochastic frontier estimation methods are used to …
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Utilizing the National Educational Longitudinal Study data, this paper examines the role of pre-market cognitive and noncognitive abilities, as well as schooling inputs, on young men's earnings. In addition to the conditional mean, we estimate the impacts over the earnings distribution using...
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