The resilience in test scores and the mitigating effect of summer schools one year after the COVID-19 school closures
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Polygenic Risk of Mental Disorders and Subject-Specific School Grades.
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Published in Biological psychiatry
Education is essential for socioeconomic security and long-term mental health; however, mental disorders are often detrimental to the educational trajectory. Genetic correlations between mental disorders and educational attainment do not always align with corresponding phenotypic associations, implying heterogeneity in the genetic overlap. We unrav...
Birth order and transition into adulthood in Madagascar
Using panel data from Madagascar, we study how birth order influences the transition into adulthood. We find that earlier borns drop school at a younger age, attain less schooling, and thus have lower cognitive skills than later borns. They also start working out of the family firm earlier and girls marry younger. The precocious transition of the f...
Race or ethnicity and education in cardiac rehabilitation enrollment.
Published in Journal of cardiology
Although cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has established benefits for cardiovascular health, it remains significantly underutilized, with substantial differences in participation related to factors such as educational attainment (EA), race, and ethnicity. We studied a geographically and racially diverse cohort of insured individuals in a health claims ...
Cognition and Educational Achievement in the Toronto Adolescent and Youth Cohort Study: Rationale, Methods, and Early Da...
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Published in Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
Both cognition and educational achievement in youths are linked to psychosis risk. One major aim of the Toronto Adolescent and Youth (TAY) Cohort Study is to characterize how cognitive and educational achievement trajectories inform the course of psychosis spectrum symptoms (PSSs), functioning, and suicidality. Here, we describe the protocol for th...
Intersectional Effects of Race and Educational Attainment on Memory Function of Middle-Aged and Older Adults With Alzhei...
Published in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
High educational attainment may protect individuals, particularly middle-aged and older adults, against a wide range of health risks, including memory decline with age; however, this protection is less clear in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition, this effect may differ across racial groups. According to the Marginalized-Related Dim...
Are migrants a select population?
This chapter reviews research on migrant selection, i.e. how those who migrate differ from people who stay in their country. After discussing the different ways in which migrant selection has been conceptualized in the social sciences, I show that it has proved hard to measure empirically because it requires data on migrants and stayers in the orig...
Migration Trajectories and Education : Measurement, Spatial Patterns and Integration Pathways of Adult Migrants
Following the substantial influx of migrants to Sweden in recent decades, the socioeconomic integration processes of migrants have become a key focus for scholars and policymakers. In this thesis, I acknowledge the multifaceted role of education for both individuals and society, and aim to describe, explain, and examine the determinants and geograp...
Effect of Duration of Education on Sexual Activity and the Mediating Role of Illness in Later Life: A Natural Experiment...
Published in Archives of sexual behavior
This study aimed to examine the effect of increases in the duration of education on sexual activity in later life using the instrumental variable approach. Cross-sectional data were obtained from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Wave 6 (2012/2013) for the analysis. The effect of the duration of education on a binary variable for sexual act...
Educational attainment affects the diagnostic time in type 2 diabetes mellitus and the mortality risk of those enrolled ...
Published in Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Most patients are diagnosed as having diabetes only after experiencing diabetes complications. Educational attainment might have a positive relationship with diabetes prognosis. The diabetes pay-for-performance (P4P) program-providing comprehensive, continuous medical care-has improved diabetes prognosis in Taiwan. This retrospective cohort study i...
