larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead … evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is …, extensive research links elevated blood lead levels in children to academic and behavioral outcomes, but more limited attention …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …'s life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to women and men as …

We provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on health. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in … labor market outcomes, lower income, and are more likely to be enrolled in the public health system. They also report lower … consumption of health services, which suggests that economic disadvantage and limited access to care plausibly contribute to the …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor in- comes, with greater …