Adult outcomes by parental, school and postcode aggregated income in childhood-A descriptive analysis of the cohorts 1981-1989 in Finland.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring the ways in which childhood socioeconomic environment is associated with adult outcomes is fundamental in terms of informing evidence-based debates. However, we know little about the cohort differences in the association of childhood income with adult outcomes in Finland, a country of low economic inequality and one of the most desegregated educational systems in the OECD countries. We use register data on cohorts born in 1981-89. We divide these cohorts into tenths by their parental, school and postcode-level aggregated income at the age of 15. We focus on five adult outcomes at the age of 30. On average across the cohorts, compared to the highest income groups, the lowest tenth of parental, school and postcode income had, respectively, a 1.8, 1.7 and 1.4-fold risk of death, 3,

SUBMITTER: Hiilamo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12262847 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature