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View article: Educational Attainment, School Quality and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Differing Associations by Childhood Socioeconomic Status?
Educational Attainment, School Quality and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Differing Associations by Childhood Socioeconomic Status? Open
Background Educational attainment has consistently been identified as an important determinant of later‐life cognitive functioning and recent studies, moreover, suggest that additional aspects of the educational process, particularly schoo…
View article: Association of Blood‐based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease with Cognition and Educational Experiences in Midlife
Association of Blood‐based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease with Cognition and Educational Experiences in Midlife Open
Background Development of blood‐based biomarkers makes measurement of neurodegeneration possible in populations that have not traditionally been represented in ADRD research. Investigation of the relationship of blood‐based AD biomarkers t…
View article: Heterogeneous Physical and Cognitive Health Returns to Education: Evidence from High School & Beyond
Heterogeneous Physical and Cognitive Health Returns to Education: Evidence from High School & Beyond Open
Background Are the cognitive and physical health returns to education uniform across racial and ethnic groups in the United States? Past research has been inconclusive. A few studies posit that the benefits to higher levels of education ar…
View article: Understanding Educational Gradients in Diabetes and Hypertension: Triangulating Survey, Pharmacy, and Biomarker Data from High School & Beyond
Understanding Educational Gradients in Diabetes and Hypertension: Triangulating Survey, Pharmacy, and Biomarker Data from High School & Beyond Open
Background Educational gradients in health conditions are profound, but our understanding of how to address them is limited by the data available to us. In large‐scale population‐based research, we most frequently evaluate the relationship…
View article: Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course
Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course Open
How are children’s fluoride exposures associated with cognitive test performance in adolescence and midlife? Whereas most prior research has estimated effects of exposure to extremely high levels of fluoride, we consider exposure to levels…
View article: Education and midlife cognitive functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond cohort
Education and midlife cognitive functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond cohort Open
INTRODUCTION Educational attainment is associated with midlife cognitive functioning. However, degree attainment is the culmination of complex and unequal processes involving students’ backgrounds, the opportunities that schools provide th…
View article: Does enumerating undocumented residents in the U.S. census affect congressional apportionment?
Does enumerating undocumented residents in the U.S. census affect congressional apportionment? Open
In recent years American political figures, media pundits, and others have argued that undocumented residents in the United States should not be included in census data used for congressional apportionment. They argue that including them u…
View article: Associations Between Socioeconomic, Spatial and Educational Factors and Midlife Periodontal Disease Risk: Evidence From ‘High School and Beyond’
Associations Between Socioeconomic, Spatial and Educational Factors and Midlife Periodontal Disease Risk: Evidence From ‘High School and Beyond’ Open
Background Periodontal disease (PD) is a prevalent, preventable and treatable oral infection associated with substantial morbidity globally. There is little information from population‐representative cohort studies about the sociodemograph…
View article: Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century Open
What were the effects of having a distinctively African American-sounding name on educational attainment, occupation, income, marital status, and longevity in early 20th century America? How did those effects differ for people based on the…
View article: Education and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond Cohort
Education and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond Cohort Open
Background Education is associated with cognitive functioning and risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD). However, researchers rarely consider anything about education other than highest degree completion. Do schools’ soc…
View article: Beyond Credentials: Understanding Educational Gradients in Cognitive Function at Midlife
Beyond Credentials: Understanding Educational Gradients in Cognitive Function at Midlife Open
Background A substantial body of research points to the persistence of educational credential gradients in cognitive function across the life course, from early adulthood through old age. Fewer studies have considered the roles of educatio…
View article: Midlife Periodontal Disease and Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from High School and Beyond
Midlife Periodontal Disease and Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from High School and Beyond Open
Background Periodontal disease is a prevalent, preventable, and highly treatable oral infection that is (1) stratified by sociodemographic, educational, and spatial factors and (2) is believed to impact cognitive impairment and ADRD risk. …
View article: INCREASING CHILDREN’S EDUCATION IMPROVES PARENTAL DEMENTIA RISK AND REDUCES GRADIENTS IN RISK
INCREASING CHILDREN’S EDUCATION IMPROVES PARENTAL DEMENTIA RISK AND REDUCES GRADIENTS IN RISK Open
Recent research suggests that adult children’s education may influence their parents’ health at older ages. The empirical evidence about this upstream influence remains somewhat mixed, however. This is due in part to differing methodologic…
View article: EDUCATION AND MIDLIFE COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING: EVIDENCE ABOUT MEDIATORS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND COHORT
EDUCATION AND MIDLIFE COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING: EVIDENCE ABOUT MEDIATORS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND COHORT Open
Educational attainment is associated with cognitive functioning and risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). However, (1) aspects of schooling that precede degree completion have rarely been considered and (2) the social a…
View article: Cognition Four Decades After High School: Does School Context Matter for Cognitive Disparities at Midlife?
Cognition Four Decades After High School: Does School Context Matter for Cognitive Disparities at Midlife? Open
Background Structural racism shapes educational quality by perpetuating unequal access to school resources, creating disproportionate exposure to disciplinary actions, and limiting access to advanced courses among racially minoritized chil…
View article: THREE INNOVATIVE DATA RESOURCES: EDSHARE, THE MULTIGENERATIONAL LONGITUDINAL PANEL, AND THE 1940 CENSUS
THREE INNOVATIVE DATA RESOURCES: EDSHARE, THE MULTIGENERATIONAL LONGITUDINAL PANEL, AND THE 1940 CENSUS Open
Scientists interested in studying the long-term health consequences of early life social, economic, policy, environmental, or other exposures have historically suffered from a lack of suitable data. Large, nationally representative studies…
View article: EFFECTS OF A CANCER DIAGNOSIS ON ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN THE LONG RUN: EVIDENCE FROM LINKED SURVEY AND CREDIT DATA
EFFECTS OF A CANCER DIAGNOSIS ON ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN THE LONG RUN: EVIDENCE FROM LINKED SURVEY AND CREDIT DATA Open
Although 40% of Americans will experience cancer in their lifetime, little is known about the long-term impacts of cancer diagnosis on debt, wealth, and financial precarity later in life. Using data from High School and Beyond (HSB) —a lar…
View article: Linking the 1940 U.S. Census to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Effects of Early-Life Residential Environment on Cognitive Aging
Linking the 1940 U.S. Census to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Effects of Early-Life Residential Environment on Cognitive Aging Open
Objectives The 1940 Census is a valuable resource for understanding various aspects of historical populations in the United States. Recently, the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project integrated 1940 Census data into its extensive…
View article: Panel Conditioning Biases in the Current Population Survey’s Food Security Supplement
Panel Conditioning Biases in the Current Population Survey’s Food Security Supplement Open
We estimate the extent to which the methodological problem called panel conditioning biases the federal government’s estimates of the prevalence of food insecurity in the United States. To do so, we use 2002 through 2020 data from the Curr…
View article: Adolescent Facial Attractiveness and Later Life Morbidity, Cognition, and Mortality
Adolescent Facial Attractiveness and Later Life Morbidity, Cognition, and Mortality Open
Are associations between ratings of adolescents’ attractiveness and their adult health, cognitive functioning, and longevity plausibly causal, or are they confounded by factors correlated with judgements about attractiveness? How do these …
View article: Structural Bias in the Completeness of Death Investigations for Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUIDs)
Structural Bias in the Completeness of Death Investigations for Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUIDs) Open
Objective: To assess sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) investigations for structural inequities by race/ethnicity and geography. Methods: The SUID Case Registry compiles data on death investigations. We analyzed cases from 2015 to 2018…
View article: High School and Beyond: Cohort Data for Studying the Effects of Education on Midlife Cognition
High School and Beyond: Cohort Data for Studying the Effects of Education on Midlife Cognition Open
Background The objective of our presentation is to describe the utility of data from the High School and Beyond (HSB) cohort for studying the impact of early life circumstances and experiences—especially related to education—on risk of mid…
View article: The contribution of school quality to stroke and cardiovascular disease risk in the U.S. Stroke Belt
The contribution of school quality to stroke and cardiovascular disease risk in the U.S. Stroke Belt Open
Background Stroke and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are important risk factors for later life dementia. In the United States the geographical distribution of high stroke risk, known as the U.S. Stroke Belt, is an important contributor to ra…
View article: Secondary School Quality and Midlife Cognition: Evidence from High School and Beyond
Secondary School Quality and Midlife Cognition: Evidence from High School and Beyond Open
Background Research on the association between education and later‐life cognitive outcomes usually only considers the quantity of schooling that people complete. However, people with the same level of completed schooling are highly diverse…
View article: The association between playing professional American football and longevity
The association between playing professional American football and longevity Open
Recent research concludes that professional American football players (hereafter, “football players”) live longer than American men in general, despite experiencing higher rates of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and cardiovascular …
View article: Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data Open
The study provides the first estimates of long-run health effects from early life exposure to cigarette smoking.
View article: A New Residual Approach for Estimating Undocumented Populations
A New Residual Approach for Estimating Undocumented Populations Open
Demographers generally agree that the total undocumented population in the United States increased from 3.5 million in 1990 to about 12 million in 2008 and declined from 2008 to 2010. The consensus breaks down after 2010, however, with thr…