This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

Numerous theoretical reasons have been posited about why more schooling might improve health. Adult health outcomes and … schooling has causal effects on health outcomes and behaviors. Causal estimates based on schooling variation from policies and … significantly associated with numerous health outcomes and behaviors. However, with within-MZ twins control for unobserved factors …

Within the areas of literature on both population aging and health and homelessness, little attention has been given to … persons. The findings illustrate participants' experiences of positive health change since moving into a stable housing … environment and the aspects of housing they perceive to have improved their health and wellbeing. The qualitative findings also …

Social capital is a neglected determinant of health in low and middle income countries. To date, majority of evidence … syntheses on social capital and health are based upon high income countries. We conducted this systematic review to identify the … relation to health in the study, from 1980 to January 2013. We extracted data using a data extraction form and performed …

We use genome wide data from respondents of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to evaluate the possibility that … common genetic influences are associated with education and three health outcomes: depression, self-rated health, and body … evidence that education (h2 = 0.33), BMI (h2 = 0.43), depression (h2 = 0.19), and self-rated health (h2 = 0.18) are all …

Adult health outcomes and health behaviors are often associated with schooling. However, such associations do not … necessarily imply that schooling has causal effects on health with the signs or magnitudes found in the cross … health and schooling. Recently several studies have used within-monozygotic (MZ) twins methods to control for unobserved …

. Using a two-sector endogenous growth model where the interactions between health, education, and the environment are taken …

translates into a 2–4cm reduction in height over the life course. Since height is commonly used as a measure of long-run health …, our results demonstrate that failing to take age-related height loss into account substantially overstates the health … predictors of physical stature decline at the individual level. However, we demonstrate how deteriorating health and reductions …