Intergenerational upward mobility and racial differences in mortality among young adults: Evidence from county-level analyses.

ABSTRACT: Inspired by the influential "deaths of despair" narrative, which emphasizes the role of worsening economic opportunity in driving the increasing mortality for non-Hispanic Whites in the recent decades, a rising number of studies have provided suggestive evidence that upward mobility levels across counties may partly explain variations in mortality rates. A gap in the literature is the lack of life-course studies examining the relationship between early-life upward mobility and later-life mortality across counties. Another gap is the lack of studies on how the relationship between upward mobility and mortality across counties varies across diverse sociodemographic populations. This study examines differences across race and sex in the relationship between early-life intergenerational upward

SUBMITTER: Zang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328956 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature