generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

education are important determinants of obesity in Russia. Empirical results strongly support our model for production of health … from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for 1994 and 2004 show that diet/caloric intake, smoking, gender and … and demand for inputs in the health production function. The analysis provides information on dietary patterns and other …

Using Add Health, a very comprehensive longitudinal data set of teenagers and young adults in the United States, we …