This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

The transition from multi-ethnic, multi-confessional Ottoman Empire into present day Turkey was unusually violent and … had a very significant negative impact. We argue the modalities of this transformation helped saddle Turkey with the weak …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …