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. 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 … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …
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This paper investigates whether encouraging children to become more physically active in their everyday life affects their primary school performance. We use data from a field quasi-experiment called the Active Living Program, which aimed to increase active modes of transportation to school and...
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …
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age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the …-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … and education outcomes. We also find that what the literature has always done (using contemporaneous measure for parental …
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the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born …
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.3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the … 0.216 compared to 0.6 in the simulation model) which suggests substantial returns to college education in terms of …
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