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Date(s) - Nov 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 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.
Virtual: Zoom link to come…
Co-sponsors: University at Albany’s Institute for Health System Evaluation, Center for Healthy Aging, and Center for Social and Demographic Analysis