AIMS To determine cognitive and educational attainment in adults with end stage renal disease (ESRD) since childhood. METHODS All Dutch patients with onset of ESRD at age 0-14 years between 1972 and 1992, who were born before 1979, were asked to perform the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) test. Educational attainment was assessed by a questionnaire. Determinants of cognitive performa...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between education, social conditions, and mortality. DESIGN An ecological study relating several measures of mortality to local rates of educational attainment at age 15/16 years and scores on the Department of the Environment's index of local conditions. SETTING England and its 107 local education authority areas in 1991. MAIN RESULTS Educ...

BACKGROUND Childhood socio-economic position (SEP) is associated with adult smoking status. Previous studies have investigated mediation by educational attainment. The aim of this study is to examine whether childhood psychosocial factors (cognitive ability, psychosocial adjustment and parental involvement) are important in the association between childhood SEP and adult smoking status over and...

Using 25 years of data on individuals spanning the entire developmental horizon from birth until adulthood drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this study models educational attainment in a duration framework to examine the long-term effects of parental divorce and its timing on child educational attainment. Controlling for both preand post-divorce family characteristics and un...

When progress in applied research slows because opposing coalitions of investigators privilege their favored models, methodologists can contribute by addressing a tractable unresolved question that is relevant to all competing positions. In this article, the literature on educational attainment is addressed, broadly by focusing on alternative positions on the need to model students’ own beliefs...