%0 Conference Proceedings %B 32nd Reves Meeting %D 2021 %T Educational Differences in Life Span Variation in Dementia Incidence %A Hyungmin Cha %A Mateo P Farina %A Chi-Tsun Chiu %A Mark D Hayward %K Dementia %K Education %X Objective: To examine educational differences in life span variation in dementia in the United States and assess the role of adult income in explaining the variation within educational levels. Method: We use the Health and Retirement Study (2000-2014) and techniques of microsimulation and bootstrap to estimate the age distribution of dementia incidence for major education groups, controlling and not controlling for adult income. Hypotheses: We anticipate that life span variation in dementia incidence will be substantially larger among less educated persons than among highly educated persons. Part of the reason for the larger educational variation among less educated persons may reflect both economic vulnerability in later adulthood (a large frail tail) and economic success (a smaller but visible robust tail). Among well educated people, we expect to see a compression of dementia reflecting a very small frail tail and the postponement of dementia until ages proximate to death %B 32nd Reves Meeting %I Reves Network on Health Expectancy %C Virtual %G eng %U https://www.reves2021.org/sites/reves2021.org/files/2021-05/Schedule_REVES2021_withAbstract.pdf