The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Variable Estimates from a Developing Country

This study investigates the causal effect of education on health behaviors and obesity in Turkey, which is a middle-income developing country. Health Surveys of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors considered are smoking, alcohol consumpt...

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Volume:	31
Main Author:	Tansel, Aysit Karaoglan, Deniz
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	BASINGSTOKE PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD 01.12.2019
published in:	European journal of development research Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 1416 - 1448
ORCID:	0000-0002-8000-8613
Data of publication:	2019-12-01
ISSN:	0957-8811 1743-9728
EISSN:	1743-9728
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Development Studies Social Sciences MORTALITY DRAFT KNOWLEDGE I10 RISK SMOKING I12 I19 CHILD HEALTH PRESCHOOL DEMAND Turkey Education INCOME Health behaviors Instrumental variable estimation MATERNAL EDUCATION
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2019 Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS