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Ageing and literacy skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States

David Green, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2013 - 
- Vol. 22, pp 16-29
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This paper studied the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys and found that the modest negative slope of the literacy-age profile in cross-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects.
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This article is published in Labour Economics.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Literacy & Cohort effect.

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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Eric A. Hanushek, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: The PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 23 countries showed that the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter as discussed by the authors.
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The Declining Fortunes of the Young since 2000

Paul Beaudry, +2 more
- 01 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: This paper found that successive cohorts of college and post-college degree graduates experienced an increase in the probability of obtaining cognitive jobs both at the start of their careers and with time in the labor market in the 1990s.
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Returns to Skills Around the World

Eric A. Hanushek, +3 more
TL;DR: The PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 22 countries showed that the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter as discussed by the authors.
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Location, location, location: Examining the rural-urban skills gap in Canada

David Zarifa, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2019 - 
TL;DR: This article explored contemporary rural-urban differences in human capital using refined measures of literacy and numeracy skills, finding that rural residents obtain lower levels of education than their urban counterparts and those that do obtain post-secondary training often migrate to urban regions offering abundant employment opportunities and higher wages.
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Age, Ageing and Skills: Results from the Survey of Adult Skills

Marco Paccagnella
- 22 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC).
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Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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The causal effect of education on earnings

David Card
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and earnings and concludes that the average (or average marginal) return to education is not much below the estimate that emerges from a standard human capital earnings function fit by OLS.
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The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence From Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

Lance Lochner, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of high school graduation on participation in criminal activity accounting for endogeneity of schooling and found that completing high school reduces the probability of incarceration by about.76% for whites and 3.4% for blacks.
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Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

Kevin Milligan, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2004 - 
TL;DR: The authors explored the effect of extra schooling induced through compulsory schooling laws on the likelihood of becoming politically involved in the United States and the United Kingdom, finding that educational attainment is related to several measures of political interest and involvement in both countries.
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Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education when Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter

Philip Oreopoulos
- 01 Feb 2006 - 
TL;DR: This paper found that the benefits from compulsory schooling are very large whether these laws have an impact on a majority or a minority of those exposed, and they used regression discontinuity design instead of previous estimates that rely on difference-in-differences methodology or relatively weak instruments.
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
Q1. What are the contributions in "Ageing and literacy skills: evidence from canada, norway and the united states" ?

The authors 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 order to identify age effects, the authors use the 1994 and 2003 surveys to create synthetic cohorts. These results suggest a pervasive tendency for literacy skills to decline over time and that these countries are doing a poorer job of educating successive generations. 

A standard approach to instrumenting for a squared term would be to use higher order terms in the instrument as instruments for the squared term. 

Once the authors include the cohort dummy variables, however, the age effects indicate a steeper downward sloping profile, with the 46-55 year olds having 3.9% lower average literacy and the 56-65 year olds having 7.2% lower average literacy than the base group. 

The same test for mother’s occupation has a P-value of .79.10claimed to have gotten good grades in math having 1.5% higher literacy and those who thought teachers went too fast having 2.5% lower literacy. 

A more likely explanation of the patterns is that literacy skills deteriorate after leaving school but that the rate of deterioration declines with age. 

The estimated school leaving age coefficients indicate that changes in compulsory schooling exert sizeable impacts on educational attainment. 

The cohort that was 46-55 in 1994, for example, has average literacy levels that are 2.8% higher than those for the base cohort, which was 26- 35 in 1994.