We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross …-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating … that literacy declines with age, especially after age 45. However, this relationship could reflect some combination of age …

survey data across time we can separate birth cohort and ageing effects. In doing so we find literacy skills decline with age … skills with age at lower percentiles, which suggests that higher initial literacy moderates the influence of cognitive ageing. …The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing …

-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects. Individuals from a given birth cohort lose literacy skills after … distribution. -- human capital ; cognitive skills ; literacy ; ageing …We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a …

to various skills - including literacy, numeracy, foreign language, and field-specific skills. Graduates of academic …

participate in the International Adult Literacy Study (IALS). We document two main findings. Firstly, individual-fixed effect … to those tasks than in the rest -say, numeracy relative to literacy or problem-solving scores. The estimates are weaker …, a synthetic cohort analysis using repeated literacy assessments in IALS and PIAAC indicates that, among the low …

educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three … completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a …