'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 estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … of education for those at the lower end of the ability distribution whereas MR affects individuals across the entire … distribution. We find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

schooling intensity on student well-being in life and school, perceived stress, mental health indicators and self … and mental health than for boys. Unexpectedly, male subjective general well-being slightly increases with the reform …

We provide new evidence on the effect of education on later life health. Using variation in state compulsory schooling … laws, we examine education's effect on a range of outcomes encompassing physical health, decision-making, and life … expectancy. We employ under-utilized Health and Retirement Study data linked to restricted geographic identifiers, allowing us to …