Inequality of educational opportunity at time of schooling predicts cognitive functioning in later adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our understanding of how societal conditions and educational policies influence cognitive development across the life course is improving. We tested the extent to which inequality of educational opportunity (IEO), the country- and cohort-specific correlation of parents' and their offspring's length of schooling, offers systematically different opportunities to contribute to cognitive development, which in turn influences cognitive abilities up to older ages.

Methods

A total of 46,972 individuals of three cohorts born 1940-63 from 16 European countries and Israel provided up to six cognitive assessments and information on covariates in the SHARE survey 2004-2017. Individual-level data were linked to indicators of IEO at time of schooling, and economic, health, and

SUBMITTER: Leist AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193135 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature