We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

Recent studies have tried to provide rigorous tests of causal effects of education levels on health status. Some of … consists in using exogenous shocks on education levels resulting from changes in compulsory schooling regulations. Data from … these studies show a significant causal impact of school-leaving age on mortality at later ages: their empirical strategy …

to an individual's health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour …

’s health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour substantially, affecting …

to an individual's health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …-capital based economic growth, and causal relations among the stocks of wealth, skill and health, namely whether individuals can …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … data, we leverage a 1972 compulsory schooling reform within the United Kingdom which produced a large increase in … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle - with the largest health improvements occurring among men …

investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking …-born individuals for 13 academic cohorts in England. For these cohorts compulsory schooling laws interacted with the timing of the CGE …

Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education … addition, they find that more education is associated with better health behaviors: Better-educated individuals smoke less …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the …