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Long-Run Returns to Education

Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

Hans van Kippersluis, Owen O’Donnell and Eddy van Doorslaer
Journal of Human Resources, October 2011, 46 (4) 695-721; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.4.695
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