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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...

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Measuring education inequality : Gini coefficients of education

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Equivalent years of schooling : a metric to communicate learning gains in concrete terms

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