Biological and Sociocultural Factors During the School Years Predicting Women's Lifetime Educational Attainment

摘要

BACKGROUNDLifetime educational attainment is an important predictor of health and well-being for women in the United States. In this study, we examine the roles of sociocultural factors in youth and an understudied biological life event, pubertal timing, in predicting women's lifetime educational attainment.