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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.; Dickson, Matt; Smith, George Davey; … - 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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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - In: Economics and human biology 23 (2016), pp. 103-120

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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and …

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The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood : evidence from Sweden

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Siflinger, Bettina - In: Journal of health economics 81 (2022), pp. 1-21

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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …

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