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Healthy, wealthy and wise? A review of the wider benefits of education

Johnston, Grant - 2004

This paper reviews evidence that a greater education causes better outcomes in life, over and above the effects of … than just earnings-related) benefits of education, although studies which ignore these benefits might considerably … underestimate the total return from a additional year of education or an additional qualification. Research suggests that increased …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013

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. …

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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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Education, Political Discontent, and Emigration Intentions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Kunt, Pinar; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2019

effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …

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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? Evidence from host communities in Rwanda

Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018

camp does not have a negative influence on the education of local children. On the contrary, children residing closer to … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the …

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Effects of teaching practices on life satisfaction and test scores: evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Bartolini, Stefano; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...

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