I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education … on health. Controlling for cohort, school track and Federal states fixed effects, which fully control for the assignment … into treatment, reveals no differences in body weight, mental or physical health between affected and non …

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 …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of …

is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and … show that each spouse's education has a favorable impact on women's mental health, but the effect of husbands' education …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …

infer causation from education to smoking and find strong evidence that education, whether it be measured in years of …, more particularly the probability of smoking regularly. Interestingly, however, while we find that more education … substantially increases the probability of never smoking, our other main finding is suggestive that increased education has a …

The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …

and terrorist attacks, both of which could affect fetal health through other channels. Using data from the National Vital …