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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294896
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294913
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short … latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education … and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332393
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280674
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289891
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541455
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431274
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656747