Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Skirbekk, Vegard - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the … delayed memory score by about 0.3, which amounts to 16% of the standard deviation. Furthermore, for women, we find that more …