ArticleResearch on aging2022
Black-White Differences in the Link Between Offspring College Attainment and Parents' Depressive Symptom Trajectories.
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- Whose education matters for later-life health trajectories? A three-generation comparison in China.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Offspring education and parents' cognitive health: nativity differences among older Hispanic adults.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Consequences of deferred action for childhood arrivals for parent health: Applying a social foreground perspective.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Black-White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Dementia.Journal of health and social behavior · 2023Article
- Adult Children's Education and Mothers' Psychological Well-Being: Do Adult Children's Problems Mediate This Relationship?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Offspring Education and Parents' COVID-19 Vaccination.Research on agingArticle
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This study examines whether the relationship between children's college attainment and their parents' mental health differs for Black and White parents as they age. Data come from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and multilevel growth curve models are used to assess parents' depressive symptom trajectories. Results indicated that parents over age 50 whose children all completed college had significantly lower initial levels of depressive symptoms than those with no college-educated children. The initial benefit was stronger for Blacks than Whites. Results stratified further by parents' education show that Black parents at nearly all levels of schooling experienced stronger returns to their mental health from children's college completion compared to White parents, for whom only those with a high school education showed an inverse association between offspring education and depression symptoms. The findings underscore how offspring education is a potential resource for reducing disparities in health across families.
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