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Date(s) - Nov 17, 2025
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Speaker: John Robert Warren, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Title: “EdSHARe: Repurposing Two Large, Representative, and Diverse Education Cohort Studies for Research on How Education Shapes Later-Life Health and Cognition”
Abstract: Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research (EdSHARe) is an interdisciplinary, multisite, collaborative research project investigating the intersecting socioeconomic, institutional, and biological pathways through which education and early-life conditions impact later-life health and cognition. EdSHARe maintains two long-term cohort studies that began with large, diverse, nationally representative samples of American high school students: The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS:72) and High School and Beyond (HS&B:80). EdSHARe data provide an invaluable resource for researchers to understand how education shapes cognitive and physical health, longevity, economic well-being, and psychosocial outcomes among older Americans. This presentation will focus on the history, design, contents, and utility of EdSHARe data and describe how researchers can access them.
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Co-sponsors: University at Albany’s Institute for Health System Evaluation, Center for Healthy Aging, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (a consortium between Syracuse University, Cornell University, and University at Albany)