education group across varying levels of social spending. …

from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we examined the impact of education on cognitive … 1959–1961 as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of education on cognition. Two-stage least squares (2SLS …

The large and positive association between education and many health outcomes is well-documented but what drives this …

two explanations for this education gradient in BMI. One explanation is selection: adolescents with high BMI are less … likely to plan for, attend, and complete higher levels of education. An alternative explanation is causation: higher … education confers lifelong social, economic, and psychological benefits that help adults to restrain BMI growth. We test the …

Education and income are important socioeconomic indicators that reflect different aspects of social hierarchy. However …, only a few studies have explicitly examined how different the relationship between education and health behaviour is from … that between income and health behaviour. According to the human capital theory of health investment, education would …

smoking and quitting, rather than on differences in never smoking regularly (initiation) by education in the adult population … versus former smoker by education, sex, and age from 1966 to 2010 and for birth cohorts from 1920 to 1979. The analyses also … and age patterns of former smoking by education converge across birth cohorts, differences in never smoking by education …

While the relationship between education and general health has been firmly established in the literature, surprisingly …

Although higher education has been associated with lower mortality rates in many studies, the effect of potential … increases in higher education on mortality in European populations. We used mortality and population data according to … second, upward levelling scenario in which everyone has obtained tertiary education. The reduction of mortality in the cohort …