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The Effects of Education on Cognition in Older Age: Evidence from Genotyped Siblings<sup>1</sup>
2021-05-17
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A growing literature has sought to tie educational attainment with later-life cognition and Alzheimer’s disease outcomes. This paper leverages sibling comparisons in educational attainment as well as genetic predictors (polygenic scores) for cognition, educational attainment, and Alzheimer’s disease to estimate effects of educational attainment on cognition in older age in the United Kingdom. We find that the effe...
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- 1b9ec08c-7cc4-5b9c-9346-7c5f295e2c3c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.13.21257173