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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 …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
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We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental ….Under monotonicity, each IV identifies a LATE, with potentially different sets of compliers. The RoSLA affected the amount of education … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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likelihood of college attendance without any negative mental health impact. Though high and low income groups use a different mix …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the availability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer school … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …
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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599634
and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …'s outcomes. -- education ; cognitive skills ; non-cognitive skills ; health ; causality ; schooling reforms … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494192