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explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the … Census, ACS, and NHIS. -- health ; college education …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on the spatial and temporal variability of university...
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term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …
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explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …
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and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models accounting for both cohort and lifecycle effects and use entropy … education on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in income and only small reductions in IOp in physical and mental health. …
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estimate causal effects of higher education attainment on a wide range of cohorts’ health-related outcomes at ages 33, 42 and … 50. The non-pecuniary benefits to HE attainments on health are substantial. Higher educated cohorts are more likely to … report better health, maintain a healthy weight, be non-smokers and to have a higher sense of control on drinking alcohol and …
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Large literatures have shown important links between the quantity of completed education and health outcomes on one … has been targeted to producing evidence of the link between school quality and health. The paper presents the first … evidence in the literature on the potential short and intermediate term effects of attending a selective college on health …
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We study the impact on young children's bodyweight of switching from means-tested to universal provision of nutritious free school meals in England, exploiting identifying variation in the timing of weight measurements. We show that exposure to high quality universal free lunches increases...
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COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. This paper examines the tradeoff between public health risks and financial standing that school … less financially distressed colleges. These choices highlight an important potential tradeoff between public health and … financial concerns present in the higher education sector and emphasize the need for public spending to mitigate adverse health …
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