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Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight.

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Colen, CG; Geronimus, AT; Bound, J; James, SA
Published in: American journal of public health
November 2006

We estimate the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the probability that Black and White women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will give birth to a low-birthweight baby.Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the 1970 US Census were used to complete a series of logistic regression models. We restricted multivariate analyses to female survey respondents who, at 14 years of age, were living in households in which the income-to-needs ratio did not exceed 200% of poverty.For White women, the probability of giving birth to a low-birthweight baby decreases by 48% for every 1 unit increase in the natural logarithm of adult family income, once the effects of all other covariates are taken into account. For Black women, the relation between adult family income and the probability of low birthweight is also negative; however, this association fails to reach statistical significance.Upward socioeconomic mobility contributes to improved birth outcomes among infants born to White women who were poor as children, but the same does not hold true for their Black counterparts.

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American journal of public health

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1541-0048

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

November 2006

Volume

96

Issue

11

Start / End Page

2032 / 2039

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • United States
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Mobility
  • Public Health
  • Probability
  • Prejudice
  • Poverty
  • Middle Aged
 

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Colen, C. G., Geronimus, A. T., Bound, J., & James, S. A. (2006). Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. American Journal of Public Health, 96(11), 2032–2039. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2005.076547
Colen, Cynthia G., Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman A. James. “Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight.American Journal of Public Health 96, no. 11 (November 2006): 2032–39. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2005.076547.
Colen CG, Geronimus AT, Bound J, James SA. Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. American journal of public health. 2006 Nov;96(11):2032–9.
Colen, Cynthia G., et al. “Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight.American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 2032–39. Epmc, doi:10.2105/ajph.2005.076547.
Colen CG, Geronimus AT, Bound J, James SA. Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. American journal of public health. 2006 Nov;96(11):2032–2039.

Published In

American journal of public health

DOI

EISSN

1541-0048

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

November 2006

Volume

96

Issue

11

Start / End Page

2032 / 2039

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • United States
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Mobility
  • Public Health
  • Probability
  • Prejudice
  • Poverty
  • Middle Aged