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Gender, resources across the life course, and cognitive functioning in Egypt
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 907–926.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Kathryn M. Yount Abstract In this article, I evaluate the life-course determinants of cognitive functioning among 1,003 women and men aged 50 and older in Ismailia, Egypt. Three questions motivate this analysis: (1) Do older women have poorer cognitive functioning than do older men?; (2) Do...
View articletitled, Gender, resources across the life course, and <span class="search-highlight">cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">functioning</span> in Egypt
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2125–2158.
Published: 21 November 2017
...Jo Mhairi Hale Abstract Population aging has driven a spate of recent research on later-life cognitive function. Greater longevity increases the lifetime risk of memory diseases that compromise the cognitive abilities vital to well-being. Alzheimer’s disease, thought to be the most common...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> Disparities: The Impact of the Great Depression and Cumulative Inequality on Later-Life <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">Function</span>
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Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Emma Gorman Abstract This study assesses whether an additional year of secondary schooling has lasting causal effects on cognitive function. I use data from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal household study in the United Kingdom, and exploit quasi-experimental variation in schooling...
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View articletitled, Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">Function</span>? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
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Education and Male-Female Differences in Later-Life Cognition: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 915–930.
Published: 06 July 2011
...Jürgen Maurer Abstract This study explores the role of early-life education for differences in cognitive functioning between men and women aged 60 and older from seven major urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. After documenting statistically significant differences in cognitive...
View articletitled, Education and Male-Female Differences in Later-Life <span class="search-highlight">Cognition</span>: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean
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Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 337–364.
Published: 02 March 2016
...Nicholas J. Bishop; Natalie D. Eggum-Wilkens; Steven A. Haas; Jennie J. Kronenfeld Abstract This study examines the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2008). We used multiple-group...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... indicate that the longer an individual has been retired, the lower the cognitive functioning, with other factors thought to affect cognition held constant (e.g., age, education, and early-life socioeconomic conditions). However, retirement is potentially endogenous with respect to cognition because...
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View articletitled, Effect of Retirement on <span class="search-highlight">Cognition</span>: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... functioning domains. More offspring schooling improved parents' cognitive abilities in verbal learning, verbal fluency, and orientation, but not in visual scanning, visuospatial ability, or visual memory. The beneficial effects of offspring schooling on those cognitive domains are more salient for mothers...
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View articletitled, Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' <span class="search-highlight">Cognition</span> in Mexico
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Does Childbearing Affect Cognitive Health in Later Life? Evidence From an Instrumental Variable Approach
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 975–994.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Eric Bonsang; Vegard Skirbekk Abstract Cognitive decline is a widespread concern as populations grow older. However, population aging is partly driven by a decrease in fertility, and family size may influence cognitive functioning in later life. Prior studies have shown that fertility history...
View articletitled, Does Childbearing Affect <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> Health in Later Life? Evidence From an Instrumental Variable Approach
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Research Note: The Association Between Parity and Odds of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias Status
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1339–1350.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and likely suggests the impact of parity, as one of the important life course contexts, on people's cognitive function and risk of having AD/D. Finally, we include population projections that consider how large changes in parity distributions over time may contribute to small elevations in AD/D rates...
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Measurement of cumulative physiological dysregulation in an older population
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 165–183.
Published: 01 February 2006
... physiological systems. We formulate a new measure for cumulative physiological dysregulation using a grade of membership model estimated with biodemographic data from a national sample of older Taiwanese persons. We investigate associations between the measure and physical, psychological, and cognitive function...
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Black/White Differences in Health Status and Mortality Among the Elderly
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 661–678.
Published: 01 November 1989
... is represented by a set of GOM scores, interpreted as degrees of similarity of his or her health record to each of the profiles. Four profiles emerge from GOM analyses: healthy elderly, elderly with cognitive impairment, elderly with impairment in mobility function and physical performance and with selected...
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The Effects of Childhood, Adult, and Community Socioeconomic Conditions on Health and Mortality among Older Adults in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 153–181.
Published: 11 March 2011
... tested. We find that childhood socioeconomic conditions exert long-term effects on functional limitations, cognitive impairment, self-rated health, and mortality independent of adult and community socioeconomic conditions. Achieved conditions matter for most outcomes as well, considering that adult...
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Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 619–643.
Published: 28 February 2014
.... , & Perelman , S. ( 2012 ). Does retirement affect cognitive functioning? . Journal of Health Economics , 31 , 490 – 501 . 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.03.005 Brinch , C. N. , & Galloway , T. A. ( 2012 ). Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores . Proceedings of the National Academy...
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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 515–541.
Published: 01 April 2025
...% of the population in 1920. The growth rate of the older population over this period is almost five times that of the total population ( Caplan 2023 ). Lower cognitive functioning is associated with a poorer quality of life owing to difficulties in performing daily activities ( Garrett et al. 2019 ), increased...
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View articletitled, Does Schooling Improve <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1441–1468.
Published: 01 October 2023
... U.S. population. The significant variations in cognitive functioning and performance in ADLs among Whites, Blacks, and Latinx have garnered attention in population health research. Several studies have argued that educational attainment inequalities across these racial and ethnic subpopulations...
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View articletitled, Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016
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Causes and consequences of early-life health
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S65–S85.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... ( 2008 ). Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages . American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings , 98 , 463 – 67 . 10.1257/aer.98.2.463 Case A. , & Paxson C. ( 2009 ). Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age . American Economic Review Papers...
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The Population Education Transition Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New Health Risks
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... ranging from no formal education to secondary schooling, exposure to schooling enhanced cognitive functioning in terms of larger working memory, better planning skill, effective attention shifting, and accurate perception of the spread of an infectious disease (Peters et al. 2010 ). Evidence also...
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View articletitled, The Population Education Transition Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New Health Risks
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Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From an Unsleeping Giant
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1715–1742.
Published: 13 September 2017
... performance before, during, and after deprivation. Alhola and Polo-Kantola ( 2007 ) and Killgore ( 2010 ) reviewed the effects of acute sleep deprivation on a wide range of cognitive processes, including basic cognitive functions such as attention, multiple aspects of sensory perception, emotional processing...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1489–1516.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to create two summary measures from the six cognitive tasks: working memory and language/executive function (for details, see Table A3 in the online appendix). In supplemental analyses, we examine mortality. The WLS ascertained participants' mortality through 2019 using National Death Index data...
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View articletitled, Long-Term Effects of Local-Area New Deal Work Relief in Childhood on Educational, Economic, and Health Outcomes Over the Life Course: Evidence From the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1649–1664.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and an outcome of interest (e.g., EA) ( Conley 2016 ). We used published results of genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics to construct 13 PGIs: EA ( Lee et al. 2018 ), cognitive function ( Rietveld et al. 2014 ), body mass index (BMI) ( Locke et al. 2015 ), waist-to-hip ratio ( Shungin et al...
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View articletitled, The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom
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