the city of residence when the woman turned 17 years of age to serve as instruments for college enrollment. The college …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patientś demand for health services, and that …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman%u2019s mate and have generally …