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How Does the Impact of an Hiv/Aids Information Campaign Vary with Educational Attainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda

de Walque, Damien - 2016

Walque tests this hypothesis by examining the effectiveness of an information campaign that aims at preventing the HIV/AIDS … evolution in the HIV/education gradient. Early in the epidemic, in 1990, there was no robust relation between HIV/AIDS and … HIV/AIDS information campaigns. The analysis of sexual behavior reinforces that conclusion: condom use is associated …

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009

Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....

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Does education shield against common mental disorders?

Johansson, Edvard; Böckerman, Petri; Martelin, Tuija; … - 2009

The paper examines the causal effect of education on common individual mental disorders in adulthood. We use a representative population health survey and instrumental variable methods. The estimates point to mostly insignificant effects of education on common mental disorders. We find that the...

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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010

We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...

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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling

Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - 2011

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...

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