mothers' schooling improves children's health behaviour (fruit and vegetable consumption; exercising). …Prevalence of overweight among children is at the top of health policy agenda in many developed countries. We study the … causal effect of mothers' schooling on children's body weight. We exploit the 1972 schooling reform in England and Wales …

-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …

the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an … facts about child health and education in less developed countries. It then provides a framework for analyzing the impact of …

experts and laypeople.This paper describes the mechanics, style, and content of “Mortality,” a mobile gaming application … designed to help people understand how different mortality risks compare to one another. The game structure can serve as a …

disease. Given that lifestyle plays a determining role in cardiovascular diseases' prevention and combat, the World Health … coming years. The findings are also confirmed by the health researches of the Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) in 2014 and …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

relationship between female education and child mortality in Indonesia. Feamle education is measured in terms of both years of … education and literacy. Both primary and secondary schooling significantly decrease the probability of child death. Literacy is …This paper uses a sample of 6620 women from the 1994 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including …

The asymmetry between the patient as a layman and the physician as an expert is a key element in health economics … correlation between general education and productivity of medical care. This paper focuses on the individual investments of laymen … in specific medical education as a decision problem in which the ex-post strategies of the individual are consultation …