The Role of Early-Life Educational Quality and Literacy in Explaining Racial Disparities in Cognition in Late Life

Shannon Sisco, Alden L. Gross, Regina A. Shih, Bonnie C. Sachs, M. Maria Glymour, Katherine J. Bangen, Andreana Benitez, Jeannine Skinner, Brooke C. Schneider and Jennifer J. Manly

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2015, vol. 70, issue 4, 557-567

Abstract: Objectives. Racial disparities in late-life cognition persist even after accounting for educational attainment. We examined whether early-life educational quality and literacy in later life help explain these disparities.

Date: 2015
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