Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds
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- Vikesh Amin & Jere R. Behrman & Jason M. Fletcher & Carlos A. Flores & Alfonso Flores-Lagunes & Hans-Peter Kohler, 2022. "Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds," PIER Working Paper Archive 22-016, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
- Amin, Vikesh & Behrman, Jere R. & Fletcher, Jason M. & Flores, Carlos A. & Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso & Kohler, Hans-Peter, 2022. "Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1114, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
schooling; cognition; bounds; aging; partial identification;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to 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-2022-08-08 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-EDU-2022-08-08 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2022-08-08 (Health Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2022-08-08 (Neuroeconomics)
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