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Make secondary education universal

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  • Joel E. Cohen

    (Joel E. Cohen is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10065, USA, and professor of populations at Columbia University in New York. cohen@rockefeller.edu)

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The time is right to push global learning beyond primary-school level, says Joel E. Cohen. The benefits could include a dramatically smaller increase in world population by 2050.

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  • Joel E. Cohen, 2008. "Make secondary education universal," Nature, Nature, vol. 456(7222), pages 572-573, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:456:y:2008:i:7222:d:10.1038_456572a
    DOI: 10.1038/456572a
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    1. Goldstone, Jack A. (Голдстоун, Джек) & Korotaev, Andrey (Коротаев, Андрей) & Zinkina, Yulia (Зинькина, Юлия), 2015. "Political Demography of the World Economy: Tropical Africa [Политическая Демография Мировой Экономики: Страны Тропической Африки]," Published Papers mn45, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
    2. Jack A. Goldstone & Monty G. Marshall & Hilton Root, 2014. "Demographic growth in dangerous places: Concentrating conflict risks1," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 17(2), pages 120-133, June.
    3. Nie, Peng & Peng, Xu & Luo, Tianyuan, 2023. "Internet use and fertility behavior among reproductive-age women in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    4. Wolfgang Lutz, 2009. "Editorial: Towards a world of 2–6 billion well‐educated and therefore healthy and wealthy people," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 172(4), pages 701-705, October.
    5. Kamhon Kan & Myoung‐Jae Lee, 2018. "The Effects Of Education On Fertility: Evidence From Taiwan," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 56(1), pages 343-357, January.
    6. Stuart Gietel-Basten & Wolfgang Lutz & Sergei Scherbov, 2013. "Very long range global population scenarios to 2300 and the implications of sustained low fertility," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 28(39), pages 1145-1166.
    7. Salome Maseki & Hisahiro Naito, 2019. "Does Education Reduce Fertility in a Low Income Country ? Evidence based on Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design in Tanzania," Tsukuba Economics Working Papers 2019-001, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

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