literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier …

both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature … that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health … intergenerational effects of education on health and health-related behaviours exceed the direct effects. Studies neglecting the … status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented …

reside in urban areas and in large cities, and the returns to education are significantly higher in urban areas relative to … returns to education in urban areas are at least comparable to the magnitude of private returns. Rural areas are the major …. Relaxing the hukou restriction, increasing education levels of rural residents, providing training for rural-urban migrants …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to … tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of … production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try …