This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China … Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not …In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … for women. Moreover, we provide somewhat weaker evidence of a causal effect of education on the likelihood of having …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …