Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
An average person born in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century completed 7 years of schooling … completed 14 years of schooling and spent 40 hours a week working. In the span of 100 years, completed years of schooling … life expectancy account for 80 percent of the increase in years of schooling and 88 percent of the reduction in hours of …