1 post tagged “age”

View other items tagged “age:” Photos, Audio, Videos, Books or Links. View “age” on Vox.

Want to live a long time? Stay in school.

Jan 3, 2007
Post a comment

I always knew there was some rationale for being a professional student and studies at RAND seem to agree.

"The answers, he and others say, have been a surprise. The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income.

Year after year, in study after study, says Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging, education 'keeps coming up.'"

(VIA)