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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724642
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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196088
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Cognitive ability and the mortality gradient by education : selection or mediation?
Bijwaard, Govert; Jones, Andrew M. - 2016
Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive ability may also be affected by education so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454345
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Education, cognitive ability and cause-specific mortality : a structural approach
Bijwaard, Govert; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per; … - 2016
Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both depend on cognitive ability. We analyze the education-mortality gradient at ages 18-63 using Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521175
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Education and health : the role of cognitive ability
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732994
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2019
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153307
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Efficiency of health investment : education or intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464787
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Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases for males
Bijwaard, Govert - 2021
High educated individuals are less frequently admitted to hospital for cardiovascular diseases and live longer than the lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality rate can be explained by the educational difference in the timing of CVD hospitalisation. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583527