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We applied an established nonparametric partial identification approach that bounds causal effects of increasing schooling attainment at different parts of the schooling distributions under relatively weak assumptions.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>An additional year of schooling increased word-recall scores by between 0.01 and 0.13 SDs in China, 0.01 and 0.06 SDs in Ghana, 0.02 and 0.09 SDs in India, 0.02 and 0.12 SDs in Mexico, and 0 and 0.07 SDs in South Africa when increasing schooling from never attended to primary. No results were obtained for Russia at this margin due to the low proportion of older adults with primary schooling or lower. 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