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Gender Disparity in Late-life Cognitive Functioning in India: Findings From the Longitudinal Aging Study in India

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  • Jinkook Lee
  • Regina Shih
  • Kevin Feeney
  • Kenneth M. Langa

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Objectives. To examine gender disparities in cognitive functioning in India and the extent to which education explains this disparity in later life.

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  • Jinkook Lee & Regina Shih & Kevin Feeney & Kenneth M. Langa, 2014. "Gender Disparity in Late-life Cognitive Functioning in India: Findings From the Longitudinal Aging Study in India," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 69(4), pages 603-611.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:69:y:2014:i:4:p:603-611.
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    1. Das, Sumit Kumar & Mishra, Udaya S. & Das, Milan & Das, Pritilata, 2022. "Perceptions of gender norms and sex-typed cognitive abilities among Indian adolescents – A study of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 135(C).
    2. Estela Calatayud & Carlos Salavera & Isabel Gómez-Soria, 2021. "Cognitive Differences in the Older Adults Living in the General Community: Gender and Mental Occupational State Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-12, March.
    3. Angrisani, Marco & Lee, Jinkook & Meijer, Erik, 2020. "The gender gap in education and late-life cognition: Evidence from multiple countries and birth cohorts," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 16(C).
    4. Norton, E.C., 2016. "Health and Long-Term Care," Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, in: Piggott, John & Woodland, Alan (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 0, pages 951-989, Elsevier.
    5. Ilke Onur & Malathi Velamuri, 2016. "A Life Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(4), pages 520-563.
    6. Kobayashi, Lindsay C. & Glymour, M. Maria & Kahn, Kathleen & Payne, Collin F. & Wagner, Ryan G. & Montana, Livia & Mateen, Farrah J. & Tollman, Stephen M. & Berkman, Lisa F., 2017. "Childhood deprivation and later-life cognitive function in a population-based study of older rural South Africans," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 20-28.
    7. Woojin Chung & Roeul Kim, 2020. "Which Occupation is Highly Associated with Cognitive Impairment? A Gender-Specific Longitudinal Study of Paid and Unpaid Occupations in South Korea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-17, October.
    8. Collin F. Payne & Iliana V. Kohler & Chiwoza Bandawe & Kathy Lawler & Hans-Peter Kohler, 2018. "Cognition, Health, and Well-Being in a Rural Sub-Saharan African Population," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 34(4), pages 637-662, October.
    9. Rafael Novella & Javier Olivera, 2019. "Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities Among the Elderly Poor of Peru," Revista Economía, Fondo Editorial - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, vol. 42(83), pages 95-109.

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