This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging …. Education is endogenous and determined, among others thing, by cognitive ability. The proposed theory rationalizes why better … benchmark case a difference in cognitive ability that motivates one more year of education leads to an increase of longevity by …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …