> This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore …This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2009). Vol. 28, pages 109-131.<P … exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …

Head Start is a comprehensive, early childhood development program designed to augment the human capital and health …

This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered … small and generally insignificant. Improvements in maternal health behaviors and family income appear to explain a non …-negligible fraction of the observed effects. Finally, we calculate a large social gain induced by favorable infant health outcomes …

We provide new evidence on the effect of education on later life health. Using variation in state compulsory schooling … laws, we examine education's effect on a range of outcomes encompassing physical health, decision-making, and life … expectancy. We employ under-utilized Health and Retirement Study data linked to restricted geographic identifiers, allowing us to …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …

We study the association between education and body mass index across ten European countries (Denmark, Belgium, Greece … estimation suggest that on average education is associated with lower BMI and a lower probability of being obese. For women, the … difference of BMI between the lowest education group and the highest one ranges between -7.15% (Austria) and -2.43% (Finland …

variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …