This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and … unhealthy lifestyles. We find no effects of paternal education. Children's peer environment early in life and increased … investments in their education are possible effect channels. The intergenerational effects exceed the direct effects on health …

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 …

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 …

education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …