. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

ways to understand their health options and take more control over their health decisions. But this is not an easy task …. Professionals continue to use medical jargon, drug instructions are not always clear, and health information in clinical settings … democratising access to health information, providing new ways to improve health knowledge and support self care. Nonetheless, when …

This paper explores the rates of return to education in Sri Lanka across the sexes and different types of employment … during 2009/10. The endogeneity bias suggests that education may be associated with other characteristics such as ability and … family background - excluding such attributes could lead to biased estimates of the return to education. To deal with this …

economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …

economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …

spillovers to achievement test scores. -- obesity ; physical activity ; physical education ; children ; health … have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …