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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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, using data from France we were able to ascertain that the direction of causality appears to run mostly from education to … positive effect of education on obesity is likely to be determined by at least three factors: (a) greater access to health … provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education …
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heterogeneity into account when assessing the impact of substance use on education. …
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Recent research has reported positive effects on schooling due to in utero protection from iodine deficiency resulting from iodized oil capsule distribution in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian experience by investigating how these effects differ over time and across surveys; across different...
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The paper examines the causal effect of education on common individual mental disorders in adulthood. We use a … representative population health survey and instrumental variable methods. The estimates point to mostly insignificant effects of … education on common mental disorders. We find that the length of education reduces the BDI (Beck Depression Inventory) measure …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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health is an explanation for the much-documented positive correlation between education and health outcomes—the education-health … the education-health gradient, raising doubt about whether such behavior can be said to explain the gradient at all. I … also show that Goldman and Smith's results—both the effect of adherence on health and that of education on adherence …
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relatively recent displacement may have similar effects as vulnerability rooted deep in the past. When we look at education as …
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Recent research has reported positive effects on schooling due to in utero protection from iodine deficiency resulting from iodized oil capsule distribution in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian experience by investigating how these effects differ over time and across surveys; across different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702043
In this paper we estimate the effects of college education on cognitive abilities and health exploiting exogenous … eff ects of college education on physically demanding activities on the job and health behavior such as smoking and … but always positive effects on cognitive skills and homogeneously positive effects for all health outcomes but mental …
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