. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …

Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …: whether there is a religious affiliation (and what kind), the importance of religion, and the frequency of church attendance …

hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …