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Title: Early Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Cumulative Impact of Socioeconomic Status over the Life Course on Adult Health

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1.	Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie
1.	Early Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Cumulative Impact of Socioeconomic Status over the Life Course on Adult Health Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004. Also: http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/9/4/0/pages109409/p109409-1.php Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Resources; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Course; Mobility; Socioeconomic Background; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While much research has confirmed the association between adult SES and adult health, still little is known about the impact of SES trajectories on adult health. SES is hypothesized to affect health over the life course primarily through its cumulative effects on health, regardless of when adversity is experienced in the life course. In addition to those cumulative effects, it has been argued that the experience of adverse socioeconomic conditions in critical periods, such as early in the life course, may be even more detrimental to adult health than later disadvantage. In addition, there has also been recent speculation as to the effect of intragenerational mobility trajectories on health. Using data from the NLSY79, this study will examine (1) the cumulative impact of financial resources, (2) the differential impact of those resources at different periods in the respondents' life courses, and (3), the impact of intragenerational mobility trajectories in early and mid-adulthood. In addition, the main and moderating effects of early disadvantage on these relationships will be assessed. Findings suggest that financial resources do have cumulative effects on health through early and mid-adulthood. In addition, while there appeared to be critical period effects when respondents were in their late twenties, there were no critical period effects of poverty in the early twenties, nor were there discernable mobility effects. SES is hypothesized to affect health over the life course in two ways. First, SES is thought to have cumulative effects on health, regardless of when adversity is experienced in the life course. In addition to those cumulative effects, it is argued that the experience of adverse socioeconomic conditions early in the life course is more detrimental to adult health than later disadvantage, since it is reflected in lower education opportunities, which in turn restrict achieved status and health in adulthood. Using data from the NLSY79, this study will therefore examine both the cumulative impact of life course socioeconomic status to health as well as the moderating contribution of early socioeconomic status at different life stages to this relationship. Findings suggest that SES does have cumulative effects on health through the life course and that individuals who experienced poverty in late adolescence have a higher return to employment.
	Bibliography Citation Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie. "Early Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Cumulative Impact of Socioeconomic Status over the Life Course on Adult Health." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004.

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