Life Expectancy and Education

Pensions, Education and Life Expectancy

In a two-period model with agent heterogeneity we analyze a pension reform toward a stronger link between contributions and benefits (as recently observed in several countries) in a pension system with a Bismarckian and a Beveridgian component. We show that such a policy change reduces the educational level in an economy. The life expectancy differential between skilled and unskilled individual...

Effectiveness of Mindfulness and Metacognition Education on Social Welfare and Life Expectancy of Nurses

Introduction: Nurses have a key role in providing health services, so promoting their social well-being and life expectancy is associated with improving in job performance. The present study was done with the aim of investigation the effectiveness of mindfulness and metacognition education on social welfare and life expectancy of nurses. Methods: in this quasi-experimental research with pretest...

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

Education Differences in Life Expectancy With Cognitive Impairment

BACKGROUND Low education has an impact on life expectancy and level of cognition, but little is known on its effect on life expectancy with cognitive impairment. METHODS The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) collected population-based longitudinal data on people aged 65 years and older including measures of education and cognitive impairment, using the Mi...

Gains in Life Expectancy Associated with Higher Education in Men

BACKGROUND Many studies show large differences in life expectancy across the range of education, intelligence, and socio-economic status. As educational attainment, intelligence, and socio-economic status are highly interrelated, appropriate methods are required to disentangle their separate effects. The aim of this paper is to present a novel method to estimate gains in life expectancy specifi...