–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in …

. The spread of mass primary education and the health transitions were its main drivers. The gap between the West and the …

This study investigates the interaction of the use of modern contraceptives, fertility, education, and long-run growth … economy, in which modern contraceptives are not used and fertility is high, gradually converges towards a high growth regime … fertility transition and the convergence to steady growth. Utility enhancing sexual intercourse provides a “natural” explanation …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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 …

-effects, and the Arellano-Bond dynamic model to analyze the impact of education on health status. We use these alternative models …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of education on health using an instrumental variable approach. The … tests than previous studies. The results indicate no causal impact of education on either perceived health or anthropometric … health. With regard to the impact of education on male health behavior, namely smoking, we cannot provide conclusive results …

states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …