Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar alumni Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, and Esther Friedman, PhD, are editors of a special issue of Social Science & Medicine entitled “Educational Attainment and Adult Health: Contextualizing Causality.” Montez and Friedman wrote the introduction to the special issue, Pop Center faculty member David Cutler, PhD, is lead author on a study on the protective effect of education for cohorts graduating in bad times, and Pop Center faculty members Laura Kubzansky, PhD, and Maria Glymour, PhD, are co-authors on a study that explores whether education offsets the risk of genetic vulnerability to diabetes and obesity.