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 …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

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 …

Recent studies have tried to provide rigorous tests of causal effects of education levels on health status. Some of … consists in using exogenous shocks on education levels resulting from changes in compulsory schooling regulations. Data from …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education … addition, they find that more education is associated with better health behaviors: Better-educated individuals smoke less …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

, health, nutrition and education are explicitly simultaneous. We find a unidirectional relationship that improving basic … their situation. Channelling resources towards improving health, education and nutrition could bring dramatic economic …