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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences

Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024

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 …

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Temperature and low-stakes cognitive performance

Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2023

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...

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Smog in Our Brains : Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Chen, Xi - 2017

While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper studies the effects of contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive...

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Smog in Our Brains : Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance in China

Chen, Xi - 2017

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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making

Chen, Xi - 2018

and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first … illustrate key physiological and psychological pathways between air pollution and cognition. We then document the main patterns …

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Adverse Childhood Circumstances and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults : Lower Level or Faster Decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults

Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy; Li, Jing - 2021

Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing for diagnosis and appropriate treatment, education, psychosocial support, and improved...

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

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Smog in our brains : gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2017

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