Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
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- Schneeweis, Nicole & Skirbekk, Vegard & Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, 2012. "Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?," Economics Series 293, Institute for Advanced Studies.
- Nicole Schneeweis & Vegard Skirbekk & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, 2012. "Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?," NRN working papers 2012-11, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
- Nicole Schneeweis & Vegard Skirbekk & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, 2012. "Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?," Economics working papers 2012-11, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
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memory; cognitive functioning; education; instrumental variables; compulsory schooling; aging; dementia;JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2012-11-11 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-DEM-2012-11-11 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2012-11-11 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2012-11-11 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2012-11-11 (Labour Economics)
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