Seminar Series

Racial Residential Segregation and Cognitive Decline Across the Life Course

Speaker

Isabella Bouklas
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University

Abstract

Racial residential segregation is an important mechanism by which structural racism drives racial health disparities. In this study, I use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the relationship between timed exposure to racially segregated census tracts and cognitive decline trajectories.