ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project. …

investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early ages and weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges only in early adolescence. The analysis on heterogeneous …

early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition … segregated schooling before college) is associated with 28.8%-39.7% of the racial disparities in cognition. Policies that improve … educational equity have the potential to reduce racial disparities in cognition into older ages. Clinicians may leverage early …