A cross-country comparison of math achievement at teen age and cognitive performance 40 years later

Skirbekk, Vegard; Bordone, Valeria; Weber, Daniela

doi:10.4054/demres.2014.31.4

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“…Unadjusted differences in proficiency between 25-44 and 45-65 year-old individuals range from 10 points in the United States to more than 35 score points in Finland, while adjusted differences are below five score points in Poland and in the Slovak Republic and around 20 points in Finland and Germany. The existence of relatively large cross-country differences in the age profile of proficiency (or better, in the magnitude of age differences between younger and older adults) suggests that policies can play a role in this respect, as recently argued by Skirbekk, Bordone and Weber (2014).…”

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Age, Ageing and Skills

Paccagnella

2016

OECD Education Working Papers

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OECD EDUCATION WORKING PAPERS SERIES OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein are those of the author(s). Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works. Comments on Working Papers are welcome, and may be sent to the Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD,

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Age, Ageing and Skills

Paccagnella

2016

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Smarter every day: The deceleration of population ageing in terms of cognition

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Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults in Japan and Other Selected Asian Countries: In Search of a Better Way to Remeasure Population Aging

Ogawa

Fukai

Mansor

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Asian Development Review

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Japan is the oldest society in the world. It has the highest proportion of the population aged 65 and over, a demographic indicator that has been used by demographers for more than a century. One of the main objectives of this study is to apply a new indicator—the cognition-adjusted dependency ratio (CADR)—to remeasure the level of population aging from an innovative point of view. To compute this new index, we apply the mean age-group-specific immediate recall scores for Japan and four other Asian countries, and we compare the results with those derived from the United States and various developed nations in Europe. Our analysis shows that Japan’s pattern and level of age-related decline in cognitive functioning are highly comparable to those of many other developed nations, particularly in Continental Europe. Among the other Asian countries, Malaysia shows a pattern of change similar to countries in Southern Europe, although Malaysia has slightly lower scores than Southern Europe in all age groups. More importantly, these comparative results based on CADR are astonishingly different from the corresponding results obtained from conventional old-age dependency ratios. The Japanese case is the most salient example.

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A cross-country comparison of math achievement at teen age and cognitive performance 40 years later

Cited by 3 publications

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Age, Ageing and Skills

Age, Ageing and Skills

Smarter every day: The deceleration of population ageing in terms of cognition

Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults in Japan and Other Selected Asian Countries: In Search of a Better Way to Remeasure Population Aging

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