Wonkblog: Want To Live Longer? Send Your Kids To College

New research by Esther Friedman of the RAND Corporation and Robert Mare of UCLA finds that parents of college grads live two years longer than parents whose kids didn't graduate high school. That two-year bump in life expectancy for parents of the most-educated kids is surprisingly large - it amounts to about two-thirds of the longevity benefit of running every day.

Topics:  esther friedman   rand corporation   robert mare   ucla   live   longer   kids   college   parents   
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