Longevity and lifetime education : global evidence from 919 surveys (English)

Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects of increased life expectancy at birth on lifetime completed years of schooling in 95 percent of the surveys, with significant negative effects found in only...

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Hoque,Mohammad Mainul;

King,Elizabeth M.;

Montenegro,Claudio E.;

Orazem,Peter F.;
Document Date
2017/08/29
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8175
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2017/08/29
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Disclosed
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Longevity and lifetime education : global evidence from 919 surveys
Keywords
life expectancy

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Hoque,Mohammad Mainul; King,Elizabeth M.; Montenegro,Claudio E.; Orazem,Peter F..

Longevity and lifetime education : global evidence from 919 surveys (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8175 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/466891504011476420

Longevity and lifetime education : global evidence from 919 surveys (English)

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