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 …

increase physical activity in everyday life need to weigh the health and well-being benefits against the probability of …

mother is well-educated. -- early-life conditions ; migration ; parental education ; adult health ; height retardation ; age …We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier …