Previous work has documented a strong and mostly consistent association of educational attainment with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) incidence. Yet, isolating the causal effect of education on ADRD, and health outcomes in general, has been challenging due to unobserved confounding factors. Moreover, the impact of school quality on ADRD risks was dramatically understudied. Although prior evidence shows substate-level measures of school quality are related to higher income and upwards morbidity, little is known about its effect on ADRD risks. The overall objective of this pilot study is to examine the causal effect of education quantity on ADRD risks with novel causal inference methods and to investigate the effect of state- and substate-level school quality on ADRD risks.
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