The interaction of personal and parental education on health
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The association between education and good health is well established, but whether the strength of the association depends on other social statuses is not. We test a theory of resource substitution which predicts a larger correlation between education and health (measured for physical impairment) for people who grew up in families with poorly-educated parents than for those whose parents were well educated. This is supported in the Aging, Status, and Sense of control (ASOC) survey, a representative national U.S. sample with data collected in 1995, 1998, and 2001. The reason that parental education matters more to people who are poorly educated themselves is due to an unhealthy lifestyle, specifically to smoking and being overweight. Finally, as the poorly educated age, the negative health effects of their parents' low educational attainment get worse.
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Parental and child educational levels are highly positively correlated.
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- Authors
- Ross, C. E., & Mirowsky, J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ross, Catherine E.
- ORCID
- Ross, Catherine E.
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-02
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 591-599
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3049298
- OpenAlex
- W1964719741
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 6.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG035268, R01AG012393)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD053696)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Keywords
- parental education, personal education, education and health, physical impairment, smoking, overweight, lifestyle, aging, social status, perceived control
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Educational Status, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Status, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Qualitative Research, Young Adult
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