This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical
and empirical perspectives. Examples of outcomes considered include general consumption …

The household production literature emphasizes that technical or biological processes
condition input selection by households in their production activities, along with prices and …

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 …

Information from two US fertility surveys on couples' knowledge about and use of specific
contraceptives are used to estimate the technology of human reproduction in order to …

This chapter makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the
economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that …

Although researchers agree that more educated people typically engage in healthier
behaviors, they have not uncovered the reason why. This paper considers several …

The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of my demand for health model in
“On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health,” Journal of Political Economy …

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational
achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and …

Health care expenditures of 1,136 children whose families participated in a randomized trial,
The Rand Health Insurance Experiment, are reported. Children whose families were …

Recent studies of children have documented the existence of a relationship between health
and cognitive development, reporting typically that good health is associated with higher …