The changing face of cognitive gender differences in Europe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 11673-11678

  Weber, Daniela ^a   Skirbekk, Vegard ^a,b   Freund, Inga ^c   Herlitz, Agneta ^d  

^a International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cross cultural research; Gender inequality; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; EUROPE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

COGNITIVE AGING; CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH; GENDER INEQUALITY; SEX DIFFERENCES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 84905973076     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319538111     Document Type: Article

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