This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and … long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

unstudied. This study is the first to analyze heterogeneous intergenerational effects of children's education on parents' mental … schooling reforms. Increasing children's education reduces parents' long-term probability of developing depression. Fathers and …Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely …

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … 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 …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …'s life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to women and men as …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest …