Stay in School

From an article in the NY Times "A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School:"

"In every country, there is an average life span for the nation as a whole and there are average life spans for different subsets, based on race, geography, education and even churchgoing.

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.”

And, health economists say, those factors that are popularly believed to be crucial — money and health insurance, for example, pale in comparison to education."

MP: The benefits of a college education include about $1.5m in higher lifetime income, lower unemployment rate (currently 1.7% for college grads v. 6.4% for <>