In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and … neutral with respect to the question of whether the government should pursue policies to improve the health of its citizens …. But it calls attention to the consequences with respect to health of alternative decisions by policy makers …

between health and years of schooling after controlling for differences in income and other variables. Cigarette smoking is a … health consequences of smoking became widely known; it has remained strong even in the most recent cohorts. This implies that … the mechanism behind the schooling-smoking correlation may also give rise to the schooling-health correlation …

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

The focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …

This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a … feedback both from health to cognitive development and from cognitive development to health, but the latter of these … health and cognitive development over the life cycle. The second finding suggests that nurture "matters" in cognitive …

This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …

provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … show that when health measures from mid-childhood are the subject of analysis, both income and race differences are much … less pronounced than they are in infant mortality and birth weight data. We do find differences in the health status of …

The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … seldom statistically significant. Indeed, some health problems -- high blood pressure, allergies, and tension -- are more …

's cognitive development and their health. Although there is a large literature concerning the first of these issues, there has … been little work on the latter. We also explore interrelationships between various aspects of children's physical health … and their intellectual development and, in particular, attempt to answer the important question of whether poor health …