We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …

- cational, behavioral, and health outcomes. A population sample of Danish children born in January to May 1985 is used for the … and children’s health, behavior, and educational outcomes. These results are con…rmed by a di …¤erences-in-di¤erences analysis of health outcomes. This suggests that there is not only a selection e¤ect, but also a causal e¤ect on children of …

We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any … positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for …

children's education. Instead, impacts differ by the previous reception of state support. Previous recipients of health … there is a positive impact of ART eligibility on paternal health, but this does not translate into general improvements of …-contingent state support can lose the state support after initiation of ART, as their health improves after ART is initiated. For these …

association between schooling and health behaviors using OLS, we do not find support for the notion that education causes better …Using German census data we estimate the causal effect of education on smoking and overweight/obesity using the … dates after World War II generating exogenous variation in the access to secondary education. While we find a strong …

on education attainment and some health measures. In addition, our results can rule out any negative effect on health. … urban areas increase education attainment by about 4.5 years by the time these individuals are adults. In addition, the …