EdSHARe
Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research is an interdisciplinary, multisite, collaborative research project investigating the intersecting socioeconomic, institutional, and biological pathways through which education and early-life conditions impact later-life health and cognition. Learn more about EdSHARe Principal Investigators and their team.
Our Values
- Research to improve lives and enhance equity
- Interdisciplinary, collaborative science
- High quality, reproducible, impactful scholarship
- Secure data to protect research participants
- Accessible data for open science
Our Work
EdSHARe maintains two long-term cohort studies that began with large, diverse, nationally representative samples of American high school students: The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) and High School and Beyond (HS&B:80). The latter began with high school sophomores and seniors in 1980. Both cohorts were repeatedly reinterviewed from high school through early adulthood, have been linked to high school transcripts and other administrative records, and feature high survey response rates. Read more about the history of NLS-72 and HS&B:80.