Séminaire de Midi - Centre de recherche en Épidémiologie, Biostatistique et Recherche clinique

The School of Public Health and its Research Center in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Clinical Research are organizing a seminar entitled: 'Adult children’s education and older parents’ cognitive functioning across European welfare states: Quasi-experimental evidence from SHARE data, 2004–2022', presented by Damiano Uccheddu

Damiano Uccheddu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Demographic Research (DEMO) of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), currently holding an F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral fellowship. His project investigates how adult children’s socioeconomic resources shape their parents’ health outcomes from a longitudinal and comparative life course perspective. He holds a PhD from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), and a Master’s degree in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento (Italy). His main research interests include social and gender inequalities in health, intergenerational relationships, social determinants of health, welfare systems, and quantitative methods for social research. 

This study asks how adult children's educational attainment is associated with the cognitive health of their older parents across 27 European countries. We use eight waves of panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) spanning 2004-2022, tracking 118,721 parents across 27 countries.  We estimate random intercept and growth curve models on cognitive functioning with inverse probability weighting for multivalued treatments (IPWMT) to address selection and endogeneity bias. The results show that parents, particularly mothers, with highly educated children have better cognitive functioning. The beneficial role of child education is strongest for parents aged 70-80 and more pronounced in Southern and Eastern Europe than in Northern Europe, where universal welfare systems may mitigate disparities. We interpret these results in terms of generational equity, suggesting that investments in younger generations’ education also benefit older generations’ health, particularly in countries with residual welfare systems.


 

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Registration compulsory before 6th of May 
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