Emerging research documents the health benefits of having highly educated adult offspring. Yet less is known about whether those advantages vary across racial groups. This study examines how offspring education is tied to parents' dementia risk for Black and White parents in the United States. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, findings suggest that children's education does not account for the Black-White gap in dementia risk. However, results confirm that parental race moderates the relationship between children's education and dementia risk and that the association between children's education and parents' dementia risk is strongest among less-educated parents. Among less-educated parents, higher levels of children's attainment prevent the risk of dementia onset for Black parents, but low levels of offspring schooling increase dementia risk among White parents. The study highlights how offspring education shapes the cognitive health of social groups differently and points to new avenues for future research.

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后代教育程度和年长父母痴呆症的黑人和白人差异。


新兴研究证明了拥有受过高等教育的成年后代对健康的好处。然而，对于这些优势是否因种族群体而异，人们知之甚少。这项研究探讨了美国黑人和白人父母的子女教育与父母患痴呆症的风险之间的关系。使用健康与退休研究的数据，研究结果表明，儿童的教育并不能解释痴呆症风险的黑人和白人差异。然而，结果证实，父母种族调节了儿童教育与痴呆风险之间的关系，并且在受教育程度较低的父母中，儿童教育与父母痴呆风险之间的关联最强。在受教育程度较低的父母中，孩子的学业成绩较高可以防止黑人父母患痴呆症的风险，但子女受教育水平低会增加白人父母患痴呆症的风险。该研究强调了后代教育如何以不同的方式塑造社会群体的认知健康，并为未来的研究指出了新的途径。