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Education and self-rated health — cumulative advantage and its rising importance
Author(s)	John Mirowsky, Catherine E Ross
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 30, no 1, January 2008
Pages	pp 93-122
Keywords	Educational status [elderly] ; Economic status [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Mathematical models ; Theory ; United States of America.
Annotation	The cumulative advantage hypothesis predicts that the adulthood rate of decline in health differs across levels of education in a manner that progressively enlarges the health gap across most of all adulthood. The rising importance hypothesis predicts that the differences across levels of education in the rate of health's decline have been growing for many decades. If both are correct, then each phenomenon tends to obscure the other when compared to the health gap across age groups in a particular year or period. The trend also can make it seem that health converges across levels of education in old age when it actually diverges. A latent growth model of US data from 1995, 1996 and 2001 supported both hypotheses. It also showed a trend toward lower age-specific self-rated health at all levels of education, but less so the higher the education. There was no significant convergence over time in older age groups. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-080121214 A
Classmark	F:V: F:W: CC: 3LM: 4D: 7T
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