Lee Jinkook, Smith James P
University of Southern California, 3715 McClintock Ave, Suite 208C, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0115,
RAND Corporation, P. O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, Tel 1-310-393-0411 x. 5255,
J Econ Ageing. 2014 Dec 1;4:26-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2014.02.002.
State policies over time in India may have led to significant differences by sex in population health and cognition. In this paper, we use data from the pilot wave of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, conducted in Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, and Rajasthan, to examine state variations in health, educational attainment, and male preference, and how these variations contribute to gender differences in late-life cognition in India. We find men and women born in Punjab are taller than those elsewhere, but do not find any gender differences in height across states with differential male preference. We do find a significant gap in educational attainment that correlates with male preference. We find paternal education benefits both sons and daughters, while maternal education contributes to daughters' educational attainment. Finally, we find that paternal education benefits daughters' late-life cognition, while maternal education benefits sons' late-life cognition, and that children's education has positive association with older adults' cognitive functioning as well.
随着时间的推移，印度的国家政策可能导致了人口健康和认知方面的性别显著差异。在本文中，我们使用了印度纵向老龄化研究试点阶段的数据，该研究在卡纳塔克邦、喀拉拉邦、旁遮普邦和拉贾斯坦邦进行，以研究各邦在健康、教育程度和男性偏好方面的差异，以及这些差异如何导致印度老年认知方面的性别差异。我们发现，出生在旁遮普邦的男性和女性比其他地方的人更高，但在有不同男性偏好的邦中，我们没有发现身高方面的任何性别差异。我们确实发现教育程度存在显著差距，且这与男性偏好相关。我们发现父亲的教育对儿子和女儿都有好处，而母亲的教育有助于女儿的教育程度。最后，我们发现父亲的教育有利于女儿的晚年认知，而母亲的教育有利于儿子的晚年认知，并且孩子的教育与老年人的认知功能也呈正相关。
