McEniry, Mary, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2008-03 Abstract Background: Season of birth has been shown to be a useful proxy of early growth and development among adults. It is an indicator that disentangles the effects of childhood conditions (health, SES) on adult health and sheds light on the adult health effects of poor nutrition …
Garbarski, Dana Working paper no. 2008-10 Abstract Recent work exploring the relationship between socioeconomic status and health has employed a psychosocial concept called subjective social status (SSS) as a mediator in the relationship. Given that SSS is “cognitive averaging” of SE characteristics over time, SSS may be a component of socioeconomic status subject to interplay …
Philip S. Brenner, Philip S., and Erica Siegl Working paper no. 2008-11 Abstract Promoting the good health of an aging citizenry is a major research priority in the United States. This study contributes to this research agenda by examining the health benefits conferred by social support, social participation, and religiosity. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal ordinal …
Andrew, Megan, Erin Ruel, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2008-16 Abstract Researchers have explored the considerable negative effect of an individual’s or his spouse’s poor health on their wealth accumulation. Health selection may also operate across generations, affecting the wealth of children whose parents suffer from poor health. We develop an intergenerational model of …
Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-17 Abstract The expanding waistlines of the American population have stirred immense research and public interest in how secular changes in body weight affect population health. Big controversies and gaps remain in our understanding about the weight-mortality relationship. This study uses recalled weight at age 25 to classify weight status, …
Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-18 Abstract The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight continuously well up to the oldest ages. The negative health consequences of excess body weight have been well-documented. An intriguing question is whether these consequences decline over the life course, and excess body …
Palloni, Alberto, Robert G. White, and Carolina Milesi Working paper no. 2009-01 Abstract The association between adult socioeconomic status and health status has been alternately attributed to the material effects of economic status, ties between labor productivity and health and cumulative effects of early life socioeconomic status. This paper considers the lasting effects of early …
Palloni, Alberto, Robert G. White, and Carolina Milesi Working paper no. 2009-10 Abstract The association between adult socioeconomic status and health status has been alternately attributed to the material effects of economic status, ties between labor productivity and health and cumulative effects of early life socioeconomic status. This paper considers the lasting effects of early …
White, Robert G., and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2009-11 Abstract Sample selection bias is a chronic problem in longitudinal studies that is particularly problematic for studies concerning the relationship between health and socio-economic status. This paper adopts two alternate methods for handling sample selection bias attributable to survey attrition and item non-response. Both methods …
Karraker, Amelia, John DeLamater and Christine Schwartz Working paper no. 2009-13 Abstract Objective: To examine sexual frequency decline among American men and women between the ages of 44 and 72 born from 1933 to 1948. Methods: Using data from the National Health and Social Life Study (NHSLS) and the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), …