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Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …
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One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …-percentage points in reporting fair or poor health, 1-percentage points for underweight and 1.5-percentage points for smoking … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the …
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Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
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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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HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …
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