This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier … literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …

over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical … research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature … that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …

fertility in young adulthood. Finally, we provide evidence that school spending improves theory-of-mind in childhood. …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education …

to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … mortality. The reform provides a powerful instrument, significantly raising years of schooling, which, in turn, has a large and …