-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … these effects operate. The chapter pays a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health for a variety of …This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …

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 …

). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews …, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or …

We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH) called well-being-adjusted healthy life expectancy (WAHE …). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of health-adjusted life expectancy indicators and measures life expectancy equivalent to full … health. The measure combines health and mortality information into a single indicator with weights that quantify the …

period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance … International Student Assessment test scores among 15-year-olds. Public spending on family support, housing, and education are also …