Economics of Education Review
Volume 17, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 12
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Health economics and the economics of education: specialization and division of labor*
Janet Hunt-McCool & Dawn M Bishop
This paper addresses the separation of human capital studies into separate fields of education and health. The main difference between the two fields may be the inability to measure the value added... More
pp. 237-244
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Health, wealth and happiness: why pursue a higher education?
Joop Hartog & Hessel Oosterbeek
We explore the effect of schooling on health, wealth and happiness for a cohort of Dutch individuals born around 1940. We also use observations on childhood IQ and family background. The most... More
pp. 245-256
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Education's role in explaining diabetic health investment differentials
Matthew E. Kahn
This paper studies the relationship between education and diabetic health investment. The empirical work focuses on how education affects heath investment proxies such as smoking propensities,... More
pp. 257-266
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Do those with more formal education have better health insurance opportunities?
Diane M. Dewar
Inequalities in the availability of employer-based health insurance due to differences in formal educational attainment are examined. 7762 fully employed adult respondents are sampled from the 1987... More
pp. 267-277
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The effect of endogenous health inputs on the relationship between health and education
Donna B. Gilleskie & Amy L. Harrison
This paper extends the analysis of the relationship between health and schooling by examining the impact of education on the choice of medical care inputs and the subsequent relationship between... More
pp. 279-295
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Nursing wages and educational credentials: the role of work experience and selectivity bias
Anabela Botelho, Cheryl Bland Jones & B.F. Kiker
The purpose of this study is to compare wage profiles of registered nurses across three types of educational backgrounds (essentially two-, three- and four-year programs), while allowing for... More
pp. 297-306
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The effect of low birthweight on the school performance and behavior of school-aged children
Hope Corman & Stephen Chaikind
This study examines the school performance and behavior of children aged six to fifteen years who were born weighing less than 2500g, compared with a group of normal birthweight children, holding... More
pp. 307-316
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The effects of schooling and cognitive ability on smoking and marijuana use by young adults
William Sander
The effects of schooling, cognitive ability, and time preference on the probability that young adults use or smoke marijuana are estimated. It is shown that schooling, cognitive ability, and time... More
pp. 317-324
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Gender and life-cycle differences in the impact of schooling on chronic disease in Jamaica*
Sudhanshu Handa
The incidence and correlates of adult health are becoming a policy issue in many middle-income countries due to the aging of population structures associated with medical technology and the... More
pp. 325-336
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The demand for medical education: an augmented human capital approach
Robert Quinn & Jamie Price
The demand for education is often viewed as a pure human capital good and hence treated like an investment. Medical education, like other types of education, should also have some consumption value... More
pp. 337-347
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Parents' schooling and the correlation between education and frailty
J.Paul Leigh
This study investigates whether parents' education or unobserved variables partially explain correlations between education and a measure of frailty in adults. Data sets are drawn from the 1986... More
pp. 349-358
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The financing and provisioning of education and health services in developing countries: review article
Julia A Heath
Because government expenditures are coming under increased pressure to provide efficient, cost-effective outcomes, the market is increasingly being seen as the mechanism which can most efficiently ... More
pp. 359-362