The Effect of Education on Old Age Cognitive Abilities
Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9720459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Banks (0000-0002-9726-8921, University of Manchester and IFS), Fabrizio Mazzonna (0000-0002-9065-0474, MEA at the Max‐Planck‐Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (MPISOC)) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 560 |
| Pages | 418-448 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02499.x |
| PMID | 22611283 |
| PMCID | PMC3351837 |
| OpenAlex | W3122510247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 38 |
In this paper we exploit the 1947 change to the minimum school-leaving age in England from 14 to 15, to evaluate the causal effect of a year of education on cognitive abilities at older ages. We use a regression discontinuity design analysis and find a large and significant effect of the reform on males' memory and executive functioning at older ages, using simple cognitive tests from the English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing (ELSA) as our outcome measures. This result is particularly remarkable since the reform had a powerful and immediate effect on about half the population of 14-year-olds. We investigate and discuss the potential channels by which this reform may have had its effects, as well as carrying out a full set of sensitivity analyses and robustness checks
Cognition · Computer security · Demographic economics · Economics · Exploit · Machine learning · Population · Population ageing · Regression analysis · Regression discontinuity design · Robustness (evolution · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
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