Education and midlife cognitive functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond cohort.

ABSTRACT:

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 them, and their performance within those schools─all of which may also shape midlife cognition. What do educational gradients in midlife cognition look like using a richer conceptualization and measures of "education?"

Methods

We use data from High School and Beyond (HS&B:80)─a large, nationally representative sample of Americans followed from high school through age ∼60─to assess the role of education in stratifying midlife cognition.

Results

High schools' academic and socioeconomic environments predict midlife cognition primarily thr

SUBMITTER: Muller C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863354 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature