education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …

This paper measures the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school age children using a longitudinal … dataset from Indonesia. A unique feature of the dataset is that it uses an identical test for two survey rounds, which implies … marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …

education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity …