Study links college education to longer life span
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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found Americans who have four-year college degrees have longer adult life expectancy than those who do not have a college degree. The findings, based on analysis of federal death certificates and population survey data, showed Black and white people with bachelor’s degrees tended to have 3.6 and 3.5 more expected years of life in 2018, respectively, than their peers without degrees, a gap that has widened in both groups since 1990.
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