Education and Male-Female Differences in Later-Life Cognition: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 915-930

  Maurer, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Education; Later life cognition; Latin America and the Caribbean; Male female differences; Oaxaca Blinder decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960495593     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0048-x     Document Type: Article

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