Black-White variation in the relationship between early educational experiences and trajectories of cognitive function among US-born older adults.

ABSTRACT: Black adults face a substantially higher risk for dementia in later life compared to their White peers. Given the critical role of educational attainment and cognitive function in later life dementia risk, this paper aims to determine if early educational experiences and educational attainment are differentially related to trajectories of cognitive status across race and if this further varies by education cohort. We use data from the Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) and prospective data on cognition from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We restrict our sample to Black and White US-born adults who provided at least one measure of cognitive status from 1995/6-2016. We find evidence of Black-White differences in the association between educational experiences and level of cognitive func

SUBMITTER: Walsemann KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9358471 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature