ArticleSSM - population health2022
Increased adult child schooling and older parents' health behaviors in Europe: A quasi-experimental study.
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- Offspring education and cognitive health: A comparison between Hispanic and White older adults in the United States.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of esophageal cancer patients regarding pulmonary rehabilitation training.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Consequences of deferred action for childhood arrivals for parent health: Applying a social foreground perspective.Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- Adult child educational attainment and older parents' psychosocial outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Black-White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Dementia.Journal of health and social behavior · 2023Article
- Offspring Education and Parents' COVID-19 Vaccination.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
There is growing evidence that adult child educational attainment is associated with older parents' physical health and longevity. Scholars have hypothesized that these associations may be driven by health-behavior pathways, whereby adult children with more education may share information about healthy lifestyles, role-model healthier behaviors, and/or have more economic resources to support leisure-based physical activity or the purchase of healthy foods for older parents. However, this relationship has not been comprehensively evaluated with methods capable of addressing the confounding bias expected for observational studies on this topic. We estimated the association between increased adult child schooling and older parents' health behaviors using data from the Survey for Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (n = 8195). We leveraged changes to compulsory schooling laws that would have impacted respondents' adult children as quasi-experiments and estimated the association between increased schooling among oldest adult children and respondents' (parents') body mass index, obesity, physical inactivity, excessive drinking, and current smoking using two-stage least squares regression. Each year of increased schooling among oldest adult children was associated with a lower risk of current smoking (
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