Geographical variation in the long-arm of childhood.

ABSTRACT: Scholars have documented the lasting impact of childhood socioeconomic status (SES) on health, but few studies have considered how state contexts in childhood shape health trajectories based on childhood SES across the life course. The current project uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 2009-2021 (N = 18,227 person-year observations of adults aged 18-41) to build on these studies by 1) examining state variation in the relationship between childhood SES and adult self-rated health, and 2) assessing the contributions of childhood state-level economic context in moderating this relationship. Logistic regression models first confirmed the expected relationship between childhood SES and adult self-rated health that parallels other literature (OR = 1.79, 95% CI 1.46, 2.19). Of the

SUBMITTER: Dore EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11840865 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature