Cohort and Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Education and Health: A Hierarchical Approach
Journal Article
Recent medical sociological research has examined whether the relationship between education and health is dynamic across age, whereas recent demographic research has examined whether the relationship varies across cohorts. In this study, I examine how cohort structures the influence of education on life-course health trajectories. At the cohort level, changes in education and in the distribution of health and mortality make cohort differences in education's effect probable. At the life-course level, the effect of education may vary across age because the mediators of the education-health relationship may vary in their relevance to health across the life course. Using basic regression analyses and random-effects models of two national data sets, I find that the effect of education strengthens across age, that this pattern is becoming stronger across cohorts, and that these patterns are suppressed when either effect is ignored.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Lynch, SM
Published Date
- 2003
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 40 / 2
Start / End Page
- 309 - 331
PubMed ID
- 12846134
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0070-3370
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.2307/3180803