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

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 …

. 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%. …

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 …

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 …