The Long Arm of Prospective Childhood Income for Mature Adult Health in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Pioneering scholarship links retrospective childhood conditions to mature adult health. We distinctively provide critical evidence with prospective state-of-the-art measures of parent income observed multiple times during childhood in the 1970s to 1990s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we analyze six health outcomes (self-rated health, heart attack, stroke, life-threatening chronic conditions, non-life-threatening chronic conditions, and psychological distress) among 40- to 65-year-olds. Parent relative income rank has statistically and substantively significant relationships with five of six outcomes. The relationships with heart attack, stroke, and life-threatening chronic conditions are particularly strong. Parent income rank performs slightly better than alterna

SUBMITTER: Brady D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510903 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature