Longevity and Lifetime Education : Global Evidence from 919 Surveys
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 198...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/466891504011476420/Longevity-and-lifetime-education-global-evidence-from-919-surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28350 |
| Summary: | 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 2.3 percent. Rising life expectancy at
birth for a birth cohort has intergenerational benefits in
that the cohort's children’s schooling also increases.
Rising life expectancy at birth since 1905 can explain 70
percent of the rising completed years of schooling for those
birth cohorts. |
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