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Title: A Life Course Model of Race Disparities in Men's Mortality: The Role of Childhood Social Conditions
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Warner, David F. Hayward, Mark D. |
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A Life Course Model of Race Disparities in Men's Mortality: The Role of Childhood Social Conditions Working Paper, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, August 2003. Also: http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/course/occupational_envHealth/bamick/home/TPSH%20Seminar%20Series%20Materials/Hayward%20December%202003/warner&hayward_jhsbsubmission.pdf Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University Keyword(s): Childhood; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Mortality; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Drawing on the life course perspective, we examine the childhood social and economic origins of the race gap in men's all-cause mortality. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men (1966-1990), we use nested hazard models to evaluate the mechanisms by which childhood and adult conditions differentiate the life chances of blacks and whites. Our findings indicate that childhood (social) conditions explain a substantial part of the race gap in men's mortality, operating indirectly through adult socioeconomic achievement. Lifestyle factors do not explain the race gap in men's all-cause mortality, although childhood conditions predict adult lifestyle behaviors. While omitting childhood conditions in modeling race disparities in mortality does not substantially alter the contributions of adult socioeconomic conditions, ignoring the role of childhood conditions is problematic for public policy given our results. |
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Warner, David F. and Mark D. Hayward. "A Life Course Model of Race Disparities in Men's Mortality: The Role of Childhood Social Conditions." Working Paper, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, August 2003. |