Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Demography 51 (2014) 2, pp. 619-643
We study the effect of secondary education on cognitive performance toward the end of working age. We exploit the … Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on memory, fluency, numeracy, and orientation-to-date. Furthermore …, we study education effects on cognitive decline. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory scores. One year of …