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Who can predict their own Demise? : accuracy of longevity expectations by education and cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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Are children with siblings really more vulnerable than only children in health, cognition and non-cognitive outcomes? : evidence from a multi-province dataset in China
Zhou, Hua; Mo, Di; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; Rozelle, Scott - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 3, pp. 3-17
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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Age at school transition and children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes
Tushar, Bharati,; Green, Thea Harpley - 2021
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Grant, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279607
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project. …
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The impacts of transition to middle school on student cognitive, non-cognitive and perceptual developments : evidence from China
Anderson, Kathryn H.; Gong, Xue; Hong, Kai; Zhang, Xi - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 4, pp. 384-402
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The consequences of the 1959-1961 Chinese famine for educational attainment
Lay, Margaret J.; Norling, Johannes - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 20 (2020) 2, pp. 1-23
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early ages and weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges only in early adolescence. The analysis on heterogeneous …
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Malaria and education : evidence from Mali
Thuilliez, Josselin; Albis, Hippolyte d’; Niangaly, … - In: Journal of African economies 26 (2017) 4, pp. 443-469
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