This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

weakening of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …

consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing … effect with the level of education unlike in the developed countries. This result indicates that smoking is a serious public …