Table 4.

Effects of Completing a College Degree on Age 65 Global Cognition among Women

	Adjusted Inverse Probability Weighting Model 1		Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Model 2
Average predicted global cognition for high school graduates (percent of maximum possible)	0.51*	(0.50, 0.51)
Average treatment effect (ATE) of college completion	0.06*	(0.03, 0.08)
Propensity score strata rank			ATE within stratum
1 – (0, .05)			0.05	(−0.01, 0.10)
2 – (.05, .1)			0.11*	(0.02, 0.19)
3 – (.1, .15)			0.05	(−0.01, 0.13)
4 – (.15, .2)			0.10*	(0.03, 0.16)
5 – (.2, .3)			0.03	(−0.01, 0.07)
6 – (.3, .4)			0.08*	(0.04, 0.13)
7 – (.4, .6)			0.03*	(0.01, 0.07)
8 – (.6, .8)			0.03	(−0.01, 0.05)
9 – (.8, 1)			0.06*	(0.01, 0.13)
Linear trend of ATEs by strata rank
Slope			−0.01	(−0.01, 0.00)
Constant			0.07*	(0.03, 0.12)

Note: Data are from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Numbers in parenthesis are 95% confidence intervals.

*p < .05.