Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to
which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits
that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can …

In dieser Dauerbeobachtung des deutschen Bildungssystems führen die Autorinnen und
Autoren die Analyse bekannter Indikatoren mit neuen Akzenten fort. Schwerpunktthema der …

Die Autorengruppe, der Herausgeber und der Verlag haben die in dieser Veröffentlichung
enthaltenen Angaben mit größter Sorgfalt zusammengestellt. Sie können jedoch nicht …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

There is a strong, positive, and well-documented correlation between education and health
outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to understand to what extent this relationship is causal …

Educational attainment is a well-established social determinant of health. It affects health
through many mechanisms such as neural development, biological aging, health literacy …

In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and
opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each …

An epidemic of obesity has been develo** in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30
years. Existing evidence provides a strong suggestion that such an epidemic has affected …