We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a …-run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … education has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. -- health ; education …

are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for … individual health. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by a sequence of Italian pension reforms … consequences on obesity and self-reported satisfaction with health. …

We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a …-run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. -- Health ; education ; health behaviors …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. -- health ; education …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which …

effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV … impact of years of schooling on BMI with one relying on a broader measure of education, i.e. individual standardized … cognitive tests, and show that the current focus in the literature on years of schooling as the measure of education is not …