In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as … educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria … 2007-08), our results indicate that each additional year of schooling increased women's probability of using malaria …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health … intergenerational effects of education on health and health-related behaviours exceed the direct effects. Studies neglecting the … status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented …

term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …

effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We … find a strong positive correlation between education and health, both self-rated and measured by blood fibrinogen and C …

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 …, drinking or eating various types of food. -- Education ; health ; socio-economic gradient ; education gradient …

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 …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not … influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive … ability does not significantly alter the relationship between education and health behavior. Similarly, the impact of …

role. -- Education gradient ; school year length ; health …I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education … on health. Controlling for cohort, school track and Federal states fixed effects, which fully control for the assignment …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect …