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

Intelligence

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-96

  Bordone, Valeria ^a   Scherbov, Sergei ^a,b   Steiber, Nadia ^a,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b VIENNA INSTITUTE OF DEMOGRAPHY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ageing population; Cognition; ELSA; Flynn effect; SOEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939782114     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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