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attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005783
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198942
' health. We find that longer working hours increase smoking and decrease self-reported health, and that these impacts are …Does working time affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929590
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193640
Using German census data we estimate the causal effect of education on smoking and overweight/obesity using the … association between schooling and health behaviors using OLS, we do not find support for the notion that education causes better … health behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205742
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … weight problems for both sexes. On the other hand, we find little evidence for a causal effect of education on smoking … behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193352
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in … BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351836
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001608
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006032