tailieunhanh - The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Health and Physical Education offers experiential learning, with a curriculum that is relevant, engaging, contemporary, physically active, enjoyable and developmentally appropriate. In Health and Physical Education students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to support them to be resilient, to develop a strong sense of self, to build and maintain satisfying relationships, to make health-enhancing decisions in relation to their health and physical activity participation, and to develop health literacy competencies in order to enhance their own and others‘ health and wellbeing. As students mature, learning how to address issues such as personal transitions, safety, healthy. | DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 5944 The Causal Effect of Education on Health What is the Role of Health Behaviors Giorgio Brunello Margherita Fort Nicole Schneeweis Rudolf Winter-Ebmer August 2011 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor The Causal Effect of Education on Health What is the Role of Health Behaviors Giorgio Brunello University of Padua CESifo and IZA Margherita Fort University of Bologna and CHILD Nicole Schneeweis University of Linz Rudolf Winter-Ebmer University of Linz CEPR IHS and IZA Discussion Paper No. 5944 August 2011 IZA . Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone 49-228-3894-0 Fax 49-228-3894-180 E-mail iza@ Any opinions expressed here are those of the author s and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network workshops and conferences data service project support research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in i original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics ii development of policy concepts and iii dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5944 August 2011 ABSTRACT The Causal Effect of Education on Health What is the Role of Health Behaviors In this paper we investigate the contribution of health .