foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health … inequality in many low-income countries, and thus schooling and health are analyzed here as indicators of productivity and … schooling and health, and delay the equalization of these human capital investments between men and women. Liberalization of …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … of education for those at the lower end of the ability distribution whereas MR affects individuals across the entire … distribution. We find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes …

foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health … inequality in many low income countries, and thus schooling and health are analyzed here as indicators of productivity and … schooling and health, and delay the equalization of these human capital investments between men and women. Liberalization of …

. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health and health …In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … but not for women. Moreover, we provide evidence of a causal effect of education on the likelihood of having weight …

This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in …

students' mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to … enroll in a more selective high school increases the probability of enrollment in higher education and decreases the …

In this paper we estimate the effects of college education on cognitive abilities and health exploiting exogenous … effects of college education on physically demanding activities on the job and health behavior such as smoking and drinking … but always positive effects on cognitive skills and homogeneously positive effects for all health outcomes but mental …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health, exploiting a compulsory schooling law …, education that matters most for child health. There are also important differences in the effect according to child gender. An … additional year of mother's education raises boys height-for-age by 0.163 standard deviations, whilst there is no statistically …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …