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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2014

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491394

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293904

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326267

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329178

Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males

Bijwaard, Govert - 2021

High educated individuals are less frequently admitted to hospital for cardiovascular diseases and live longer than the lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality rate can be explained by the educational difference in the timing of CVD hospitalisation. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658086

Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Bijwaard, Govert; Jones, Andrew M. - 2016

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive ability may also be affected by education so...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479316

Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach

Bijwaard, Govert; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per; … - 2016

Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both depend on cognitive ability. We analyze the education-mortality gradient at ages 18-63 using Swedish...

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The Impact of Mental Problems on Mortality and How It Is Moderated by Education

Bijwaard, Govert; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per - 2018

Mental disorders have a large impact on invalidity and mortality. Poor mental health is associated with low education …, which is also associated with poor health and higher mortality. The association between mental health and mortality may … mental health problems, education attainment and mortality may all depend on the same observed and unobserved individual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873595

Climate Changes Affect Human Capital

Caruso, Germán; de Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290284

The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469546