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In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students … years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
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This paper examines how much changing educational disparity for specific causes of death contributed to the change in overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific causes of death, the study also examines educational...
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The present study examines the health behavior of more than 30,000 individuals aged 25-74 in Austria, using education … education has a great positive impact on the extent to which a person lives a healthy lifestyle with regard to diet, physical … activity, and smoking. Furthermore, the prevalence of overweight decreases significantly with any increase in education, and …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
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consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …
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