For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach.

ABSTRACT: Scholars of social determinants of health have long been interested in how parent's and own education influence health. However, the differing effects of parent's and own education on health-that is, for what socioeconomic group education conveys health benefits-are relatively less studied. Using multilevel marginal structural models, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of parent's and own education over the life course on two health measures. Our analysis considers both parent's and respondent's pre-education covariates, such as childhood health and socioeconomic conditions. We find that the protective effects of college completion against negative health outcomes are remarkably similar regardless of parent's (measured by father's or mother's) education. Meanwhile, parent's education ha

SUBMITTER: Luo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11622520 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature