and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

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 …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health …

households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …