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Finalized Literature Review #17

Open xorabear opened 11 months ago

xorabear commented 11 months ago

Our research question is “Can a person's amount of education and its quality decrease the chances of having dementia or cognitive problems in older ages?" We’ve chosen to look at the link between years of education, the highest level of education achieved, and dementia.

"Does education improve cognitive performance four decades after school completion? This article relates to our research question as it establishes the connection between cognition and higher education levels. Higher Education allows you to get into an industry that requires skilled labor. Skilled Labor allows you to exercise your brain while maintaining a higher level of cognition. Higher education allows you to increase your brain usage in other parts of everyday life, which helps maintain the brain. This connects to our research as it highlights the relationship between education and dementia related to cognition and brain function. Similarly, “The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings" talks about how education opens the door for skilled labor which requires higher brain usage. In addition, it talks about how your level has an impact on your earnings because wealth is a part of the economic development of countries and individuals. "The effect of education on old age cognitive abilities: evidence from a regression discontinuity design" is about how if you are at a higher economic level, you have access to a better-quality education and access to higher education. This lessens the chance that you develop dementia due to schooling. However early education development is more critical, especially among g people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This relates to our research as it highlights the relationship between education and the probability of developing dementia. "A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012" shows that there has been a decrease in the number of people affected by dementia in the last 10 years by 11.6%. The study attributes this to education as higher education is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia. This relates to our research because we investigate whether or not education impacts the chances of developing dementia. "Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling by Melvin Stephens, Jr. Yang", this article investigates if within homogenous groups government-required education has an impact on whether or not you develop dementia. This is disproven by the article as they argue it has little to no impact. This relates to our research as some of our variable sets include grades 0-12.

The literature review highlights the return on education and the connection between the socioeconomic status you achieve due to higher education. Education is shown to impact your level of cognition via labor force participation and activities. Education has an impact on earnings which relate to the level of skill you use on a day-to-day basis which contributes to your level of cognition which is a major factor for dementia. Higher levels of education are said to improve your cognition, lowering the probability of developing dementia. There is data available for other countries, such as Europe, but we focused on the United States. Our research answers the question by comparing the level of education, years of education, people who have developed dementia, and other variables that correlate with dementia..

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kbuzard commented 11 months ago

@xorabear Remember that you need at least five papers.

You should discuss each paper directly and say how it relates to what you're doing and how its findings relate to your findings. See Greenlaw pages 236-238 for guidance.

ltsippel commented 11 months ago

@xorabear this is what it says on overleaf Discuss at least five papers that are closely related to your results (more is better). Explain how they’re related. Did you find something similar, or different? Did you look at a different context? Different time period? Different level of detail?

xorabear commented 11 months ago

@kbuzard can you take one last look at this before we submit i think it's fine but I mostly got it looked at for grammar

kbuzard commented 11 months ago

@kbuzard can you take one last look at this before we submit i think it's fine but I mostly got it looked at for grammar

@xorabear Are you talking about the big paragraph at the beginning of this issue? If so, first, please go back and review page 75 of Greenlaw Chapter 5 about paragraphs--each paragraph should have one main idea. You should have three paragraphs at the very minimum in text this long, and probably more than that. I'm not saying you necessarily need to write more; just break it up and organize it (you may need to revise a bit to make it flow well).

Here's an important quote from Greenlaw Ch. 12 (page249) about paragraphs:

page-long paragraphs suggest insufficiently deep thinking about the story you are telling. Remember, a paragraph is supposed to explain a single thought.

I have a meeting at noon, but I can look over this between that meeting and my 2pm meeting if it's ready.