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 …

education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood … age reduces the long-term risk to smoke, improves long-term health, and affects physical rather than mental health. In …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The … action, and infrastructure reform in education. Exploiting the potentially exogenous cross-sectional variations generated by …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … of education for those at the lower end of the ability distribution whereas MR affects individuals across the entire … distribution. We find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …