Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on June 01, 2008

Authors

M M Glymour1, I Kawachi, C S Jencks, L F Berkman

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1: Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. mglymour@hsph.harvard.edu

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