Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

Case, Anne; Lubotsky, Darren; Paxson, Christina

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“…To capture important family-level demographic information, I include measures of maternal race/ethnicity, age, marital status, income, insurance takeup, education and religiosity. Previous research has demonstrated the relationships between many of the above covariates and child health (Case et al 2002). Other covariates include paternal age and household composition.…”

Section: Infant Feeding and Childhood Asthma 493mentioning

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Infant feeding and asthma: is breast milk best?

Green

2010

Rev Econ Household

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Asthma is the most commonly occurring chronic childhood disease in the United States and is the leading cause of hospitalization and missed school days. In this article, I examine whether differences in asthma diagnosis can be attributed to differences in breastfeeding incidence and duration. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, I examine whether unobserved heterogeneity in the breastfeeding decision plays a role in childhood asthma propensity. I use the recursive bivariate probit framework to account for potential endogeneity by modeling the breastfeeding and asthma equations jointly. Results indicate that after accounting for the unobserved heterogeneity found in infant feeding practices, breastfeeding leads to lower rates of asthma diagnosis in children at age one. Breastfeeding for at least 3 months appears to have the strongest effects in children diagnosed at age one. However, there are no discernible effects of breastfeeding on the incidence of asthma by age three. These results indicate that breastfeeding can result in lower rates of wheezing and better respiratory health in small children.

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Section: Infant Feeding and Childhood Asthma 493mentioning

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Infant feeding and asthma: is breast milk best?

Green

2010

Rev Econ Household

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“…Undernourished babies do not only show symptoms such as low birth weight, but they could manifest disproportional growth of parts of the body also (Godfrey and Barker 2000). Case et al (2002) studied economic status and health in childhood. They found families' long-term average income to be an important factor in children's health status.…”

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Spousal Income and Sick Leave: What do Twins Tell us About Causality?

Nilsson

2008

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…Poor child health predicts poor self-assessed health in adulthood (Elo 1998) and raises the risks of chronic diseases such as cancer, lung disease, cardiovascular conditions and arthritis and rheumatism in late middle-age (Blackwell, Hayward, and Crimmins 2001). Childhood chronic illness and low socioeconomic status lead to worsening health conditions in childhood (Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson 2002). Economic hardship in childhood, especially sustained hardship, is associated with lower adult SES, poorer physical and mental health in adulthood, and higher death rates across western countries (e.g.…”

Section: Childhood Adversity Educational Trajectories and Adult Healthmentioning

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“…Resources for the support and nurturance of healthy and unhealthy children are strained and stretched thin as a result of family distress, even in intact households (Wickrama, Lorenz, and Conger 1997). Health-related behaviors such as regular bedtimes and home-prepared meals, etc., are often sacrificed in these environments (Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson 2002).…”

Section: Childhood Adversity Educational Trajectories and Adult Healthmentioning

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Kindheitsprobleme, Bildungslaufbahn und selbstberichteter Gesundheitszustand im späteren Leben von U.S.-amerikanischen Frauen und Männern um die Jahrhundertwende

2009

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A major objective of current life course research is to specify the processes linking early childhood conditions to subsequent life course statuses that span educational, occupational, familial, and health domains across the life span. This study confronts at least two persistent challenges to the rigorous specification of the relationships among these variables. The first is that the point-in-time measurement of education as "years of schooling" masks considerable heterogeneity in the timing and curricular tracks of schooling and obscures our understanding of how and when education matters for life-course inequality. The second challenge involves interdependencies between aspects of life-course inequality, including educational achievement and health. The intertwining of these variables across the life course, and their usual conceptualization and measurement, limit the interpretation of their relationship and its generalizability across studies. We use data from three waves of the National Survey of Families and Households between 1987-1988-2002 to explore trajectories of self-reported health, applying latent class cluster analysis (finite mixture models) to deal directly with these measurement and specification issues. Generally, we find mediating effects of education in mid-to late-life health demonstrating the pivotal role of education in life course processes. Women's childhood backgrounds are more heterogeneous and temporally complex educational careers affect their self-assessed health more than men's. Late degrees are linked to poor health trajectories among women, but not men. Also, marital history, number of births and health behaviors are associated in expected ways with women's and men's health trajectories at midlife.

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Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

Cited by 128 publications

References 2 publications

Infant feeding and asthma: is breast milk best?

Infant feeding and asthma: is breast milk best?

Spousal Income and Sick Leave: What do Twins Tell us About Causality?

Kindheitsprobleme, Bildungslaufbahn und selbstberichteter Gesundheitszustand im späteren Leben von U.S.-amerikanischen Frauen und Männern um die Jahrhundertwende

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