This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys …-probit models, we find causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health. One additional year of schooling is … associated with 6.85 percentage points (pp) reduction in reporting poor health and 3.8 pp and 4.6 pp reduction in having self …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely … health. Given ambiguous theoretical implications, I explore potential mechanisms empirically. Using Survey on Health, Ageing … improve elderly-specific health care provision. …