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Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

II, Charles L. Baum - 2007

education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of … children, or the set of health behaviors we control for. However, approximately half of the SES-weight correlation persists …

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Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?

Leive, Adam - 2020

We examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends during the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. We document sharply differing gender patterns. Among women, mortality trends improved fairly monotonically with...

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Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race

Leive, Adam A.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated non-Hispanic blacks than other races and mixed results at...

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The Lengthening of Childhood

Deming, David - 2008

Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 … in the age of legal school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational attainment, since lower-income … children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …

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