Education in the Jim Crow South and Black-White inequities in allostatic load among older adults.

ABSTRACT: In the U.S., Black adults consistently have higher allostatic load - an indicator of physiological dysregulation - than White adults. Education is considered a likely mechanism given racial differences in attainment, but evidence is mixed. This may be due, in part, to data limitations that have made it difficult for scholars to account for the structurally rooted systemic racism that shaped the U.S. education system and led to large racial inequities in school term length and school attendance among older adults who grew up in the Jim Crow South. Our study addresses this limitation by linking historical data on Black and White segregated school systems in the U.S. South from 1919 to 1954 to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to determine if a new measure of educational attainment that a

SUBMITTER: Walsemann KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature