health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

evidence that EPL has significant indirect (cross-)effects on life satisfaction via the mediators. There are no indications for …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time. …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and … such associations do not fade over generations. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in ancestral health …

that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show …

replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income …

show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is significantly reduced if right-wing extremism in the native population … increases. Moreover, the life satisfaction of highly educated immigrants is affected more strongly than that of low …