Mingming Ma

TL;DR: Estimation results demonstrate that increasing years of education of children lead to better cognitive functions, higher survival expectations and improved lung function of Chinese older parents and suggest that children's education might shape health of older parents by providing financial support, affecting the access to resources and influencing the labor supply and psychological well-being of parents.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether adult children's education influences older parents' cognitive health in Mexico, where schooling reforms have contributed to significant gains in the educational achievements of recent birth cohorts, and found that each year of offspring schooling was associated with higher overall cognition among parents, but was less predictive across different cognitive functioning domains.

TL;DR: The results emphasize the importance of taking into account age related height loss as a significant covariate for health and mortality of older adults, independent of baseline height and health.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that having an adult child with less than secondary education was associated with faster decline in verbal memory z-scores for older women (β: − 0.009 [95% CI: −0.01, −0., 0.001] and men (β : − 0, 0.02, 0, 1.01]).

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to estimate the causal impact of educational attainments of the highest educated adult child on various health and cognition outcomes of older adults.