Life expectancy and parental 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...

The effect of exceptional parental longevity on life expectancy.

To the Editor: The literature shows that children of centenarians live longer than their ageand sex-matched peers in the general population, yet to the knowledge of the authors of the current letter there has been no estimate of the difference in life expectancy between these groups. This is documented here, based on both an analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Public Use Dataset a...

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...