Education, cumulative advantage, and health

Mirowsky, John; Ross, Catherine E.

doi:10.1007/bf02681006

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“…the age-as-leveler hypothesis (Figure 1) (Dupre, 2007;Willson et al, 2007) and the cumulative advantage hypothesis (Figure 2) (Leopold & Leopold, 2013;Mirowsky & Ross, 2005;Ross & Wu, 1996;Willson et al, 2007). The age-as-leveler hypothesis predicts that educational differences in health decrease at older ages (Dupre, 2007).…”

Section: Life Course Patternsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…By contrast, the cumulative advantage hypothesis predicts an increase in educational disparities in health with age (Mirowsky & Ross, 2005;Ross & Wu, 1996;Willson et al, 2007). According to the theory of learned effectiveness, education contributes to the development of values, skills, traits, habits, and abilities which increase effective agency.…”

Section: Life Course Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Higher-educated people generally have better health than the lower educated (Bracke et al, 2013;Groot & van den Brink, 2006;Mirowsky & Ross, 2005). A substantial body of literature pinpoints the key pathways by which education is linked positively to health (Groot & van den Brink, 2007;Mirowsky & Ross, 2005Ross & Wu, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the higher educated tend to have lower exposure to stress related to economic hardship (Mirowsky & Ross, 2005;Ross & Van Willigen, 1997). Furthermore, the lower educated are at a greater risk of being employed in occupations demanding physical labor, have less work autonomy, and are likely to be engaged in labor that is more routine.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there is extensive literature concerning life course trajectories (Dupre, 2007;Mirowsky & Ross, 2005;Ross & Wu, 1996;Willson et al, 2007), researchers know much less about the impact of cohort experiences on the education-health gap. The inclusion of an interaction between birth cohort and education has principally been justified as a methodological necessity.…”

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This paper establishes a unified framework to fully account for the changing social gradient over the lifecycle in terms of a sufficient set of mobility indices characterizing the coevolution of socioeconomic status and health within each of a series of overlapping cohorts. We proceed to demonstrate the impact of selective mortality on health inequality changes, making use of a counterfactual health distribution for the start of the study period that leaves out those who are known to die before the end. Specifically, initial differences between the average health and educational attainment rank of survivors and nonsurvivors are found in our empirical study to be an increasingly important factor explaining changes in the education‐health gradient in older cohorts in Great Britain. Our identification strategy has the advantage that it does not require the imputation of the “would be” health of nonsurvivors, which if carried out using inverse probability weighting procedures—as in several previous studies—is shown to bias estimates of this direct effect of selective mortality toward zero. Parallel results for the income‐health gradient exhibit stronger confounding influences due to a number of other factors given that income is a less stable indicator of socioeconomic status in adulthood.

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The impact of religious beliefs on the health of the residents—Evidence from China

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Meng

2019

Health Planning & Management

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Summary This study conducted empirical research on Chinese residents to explore the relationship between religious beliefs and health based on the China General Social Survey (CGSS) data for 2015. Considering the reciprocal correlations between religion and health, this paper uses an instrumental variable to recognize religion's influence on health. The instrumental variable was the number of religious sites per 10 000 residents in every province (including autonomous regions and municipalities) in 2004. The results indicate that religion had different impacts on the health of different groups in China. It was found that religion significantly improved the health of those aged 60 or older; however, for those younger than 60 years old, their health was not affected by following a religion. Second, after classifying the samples according to urban and rural areas, it was found that religion significantly improved the health of urban residents, while rural residents were not affected by this factor.

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Education, cumulative advantage, and health

Cited by 153 publications

References 56 publications

Educational expansion and the education gradient in health: A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis

Educational expansion and the education gradient in health: A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis

A unified framework to account for selective mortality in lifecycle analyses of the social gradient in health

The impact of religious beliefs on the health of the residents—Evidence from China

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