We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration … education are still substantial, and amount to a 4 years gain in life expectancy, on average …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … completed education, are less likely to graduate high school, and are more likely to have a disability …

Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …

A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This … polio survivors obtain higher education and are more likely to work in white-collar and computer-demanding jobs than their …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … substantial evidence showing the intergenerational transmission of health, the literature investigating the impact of parental … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …-term health. However, we also find strong evidence that the educational attainment of the adopting mother has a significant impact …

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 …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … health disparities across education that average 19.3% …

Mental disorders have a large impact on invalidity and mortality. Poor mental health is associated with low education … mental health problems, education attainment and mortality may all depend on the same observed and unobserved individual …, which is also associated with poor health and higher mortality. The association between mental health and mortality may …