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Huebener, Mathias - 2019

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival...

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The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income : Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age

Davies, Neil M. - 2019

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural...

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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins

Savelyev, Peter A. - 2020

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial casual effect of education on …

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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity

Hong, Kai - 2020

We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose the effect with respect to a large set of potential mechanisms, including health behaviors,...

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Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden

Fischer, Martin - 2014

over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …, by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the … extra compulsory school year reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 …

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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on …

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The downward spiral

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022

There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov...

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Health and education : understanding the gradient

Strulik, Holger - 2013 - This Version: September 2013

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Understanding the mechanisms linking college education with longevity

Hong, Kai; Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2020

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Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: evidence from US twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin C.; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596254