"Although it is well known that there is a strong association between education and health much less is known about how … evidence that education has a causal effect on health. Using state compulsory school laws as instruments, Lleras-Muney finds … large effects of education on mortality. We revisit these results, noting they are not robust to state time trends, even …

general has a robust positive long-run effect on health, as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality. This effect … population health. To date, however, there has been very little econometric research on the relationship between these two … variables. This paper examines the long-run relationship between trade openness and population health for a sample of 74 …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

economic development. As predicted by unified growth theory, I find that primary schooling, rather than income or health …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and … income are significant determinants of mortality rates, but education alone accounts for the bulk of their time variation …