Cha Publishes Article on Education and Dementia Risk in Demography
Posted: 10/2/2025 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha (Sociology) and co-authors just published an article in Demography, titled “How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education?”. The authors leverage the 2000–2018 Health and Retirement Study to evaluate how dementia risk changes with each year of education among non-Hispanic White and Black older adults. The results show a linear decline in dementia incidence with increasing years of educational attainment, both before and after 12 years of education. This pattern is consistent across population subgroups. To read more, click here.