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Health Inequalities by Education, Income, and Wealth : A Comparison of 11 European Countries and the US
Jürges, Hendrik - 2009
I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable, while Switzerland or Austria always have relatively equal...
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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
Cawley, John H.; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …
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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions
Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016
Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554425
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...
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School Spirit : Exploring the Long-Term Effects of the U.S. Temperance Movement on Educational Attainment
Francis-Tan, Andrew - 2018
This study examines the long-term consequences of the U.S. temperance movement, one of the largest-scale policy changes impacting alcohol consumption in history. Using a sample of persons born between 1900 and 1925 drawn from nationally representative census microdata, the study investigates the...
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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective
Carson, Scott Alan - 2013
This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
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Iron and Obesity in Females in the United States
Neymotin, Florence; Sen, Urmimala - 2014
individuals categorized as obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for a variety of illnesses, and an increase in obesity is … economic problem for the United States. The present analysis examines a pathway to increased levels of obesity as of yet almost … entirely unexplored. Specifically, we examine the relationship between obesity and iron deficiency via analyses of blood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014143861
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The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being
Card, David E.; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Sanders, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2017
the upper South and Northeast had lower BMIs. Immigrants from Europe had the highest BMIs, while immigrants from Asia were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761584