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 …We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … wide range of literacy outcomes -- using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross …

Literacy is central to the improvement and betterment of any society. Individuals cannot fully engage in social and … political discourse, and are more likely to become less-than-equals in society without basic literacy to pursue their goals. On … change and to adopt new technologies. Thus, improving literacy for individuals may have spill-over effects that benefit the …

This paper quantitatively assesses to what extent signatures in marriage certificates can inform about literacy rates … as the results found with it. Two main findings emerge. First, marriage certificates can accurately measure literacy … North-South literacy divides. …

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 …