, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest …

Affordable Care Act. The law changes terms of trade in both goods and factor markets for firms offering health insurance coverage …

through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression … average of industrial prices from other industries, and by indicators of country wages weighted by industry labour shares for …

use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … explained by interpersonal differences in the discount rate. If Fuchs is correct, some health habits can be used as instruments … for education in standard wage equations. We use whether an individual smoked at age 18 in such a fashion. The instrument …

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether … education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of … educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The …

In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … in the state of poor health rather than dying …

. Beneficial effects for female youth on education, risky behavior, and physical health were offset by adverse effects for male …-sufficiency or physical health. Mental health benefits of the voucher offers for adults and for female youth were substantial …

characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of …The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have … historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from …