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Title: Do Individual Psychosocial Factors Mediate Critical Period Cohort Effects on Educational Attainment?
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1. Scott, Michael
Pudrovska, Tetyana
Do Individual Psychosocial Factors Mediate Critical Period Cohort Effects on Educational Attainment?
Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Children; Educational Attainment; I.Q.; Mortality; Pre-natal Care/Exposure

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This study displays the mediation of individual psychosocial factors in early life on the in utero and neonatal environmental cohort effects on the educational attainment of women. By utilizing the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, part of the Original Cohorts and the CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System, we employ a regression-based mediation analysis to examine to what extent individual psychosocial factors (as measured by IQ) mediate the cohort effects of U.S. infant mortality rates at birth on the educational attainment of women at 25. The analysis suggests that infant mortality has a significant effect on IQ scores as well as on the educational attainment. A second analysis using the Goodman-Sobel tests of mediation indicates that the indirect cohort carries into IQ. Thus, IQ mediates critical period effects on educational attainment. These findings suggest that additional attention should be given to those in settings compromised by infection or environmental hazards.
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Scott, Michael and Tetyana Pudrovska. "Do Individual Psychosocial Factors Mediate Critical Period Cohort Effects on Educational Attainment?" Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018.