Education is an important factor in personal status attainment, but studies regarding long-term effects of education are extremely limited. This may be due to too many factors involved and also the data attrition problems usually encountered in longitudinal studies. An alternative approach, to divide the theme of study to two stages, may provide us with quite plenty of literature. The first stage deals with the effect of individuals' education on their occupational prestige and income. A famous study of status attainment model is Blau and Duncan (1967). The second stage is about the effect of occupation on one’s physical conditions, economic status, and pension benefits in old age. This study also takes into account of ethnicity and geography's factors, as it is hypothesized that the subjects of our study, the indigenous elderly living in remote areas, had poor quality of education in early age, which led to limited career choices in adulthood, and this further impacted their physical and economic well-being in old age. This article uses empirical data to discuss the long term effects of education on indigenous elderly in remote areas, and also proposes implications on related educational policies.
