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Understanding the effects of education on health : evidence from China
Huang, Wei - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308589
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Unlucky to be young? : the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health
Bahrs, Michael; Schumann, Mathias - 2016
In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533515
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005783
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
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Why does height matter for educational Attainment? : evidence from German pre-teen children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - 2010
respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944687
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Does higher learning intensity affect student well-being? : evidence from the National Educational Panel Study
Quis, Johanna Sophie - 2015
Starting in 2004/2005, the German state Baden-Wurttemberg reduced academic track duration from nine to eight years, leaving cumulative instruction time mostly unchanged. I use this change in schooling policy to identify the effect of schooling intensity on student well-being in life and school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466328
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
Biroli, Pietro - 2017
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957015
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Health Effects of Instruction Intensity : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools
Quis, Johanna - 2017
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945802
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The Effect of Education on Health : Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870149
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The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income : Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age
Davies, Neil M. - 2019
We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental ….Under monotonicity, each IV identifies a LATE, with potentially different sets of compliers. The RoSLA affected the amount of education … additional years of education thus seem to be similar across the education distribution. Our study corroborates the usefulness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870288