This paper studies distributional effects of education on health. In 1972, England, Scotland, and Wales raised their … objective health measures for 0.27 million individuals, we find that education reduced body size and increased blood pressure in …

I show that serious, yet common, parental health shocks in childhood have immediate and lasting effects on mental … health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … take anti-depressants following a parental health shock have lower educational attainments in early adulthood, while …

This study assesses nexuses between mobile money innovations and health performance in terms of total life expectancy … regressions. The findings overwhelmingly show that mobile money innovations are relevant in improving health performance or total … the linkage between mobile money innovations and health performance are unlikely to succeed unless attendant policies are …

aspects of the school environment affect children's dietary behavior and health. In addition to consuming nutrient rich food … their nutritional health (as measured by BMI) using data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-III. A parsimonious … initial results suggests that there is indeed a negative impact of short lunch length on health. Moreover, this observed …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient's demand for health services, and that …

the first period to the next depends upon health capital that can be augmented through public investment. High mortality … mortality also reduces returns on investments, like education, where risks are undiversifiable. When human capital drives … economic growth, countries differing in only health capital do not converge to similar living standards; 'threshold effects …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between health and economic growth through including investment, exports …-run relationship; that is, they are cointegrated. Second, we find that in the long-run, while health, investment, exports, and R&D have … contributed positively to economic growth, imports have had a statistically significant negative effect while education has had an …