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Religious attendance and mortality: Implications for the black-white mortality crossover

Dupre, Matthew E., Franzese, Alexis T., Parrado, Emilio A.·2006·Demography
DOI 10.1353/dem.2006.0004
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This study investigates the relationships among religious attendance, mortality, and the black-white mortality crossover. We build on prior research by examining the link between attendance and mortality while testing whether religious involvement captures an important source of population heterogeneity that contributes to a crossover. Using data from the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, we find a strong negative association between attendance and mortality. Our results also show evidence of a racial crossover in mortality rates for both men and women. When religious attendance is modeled in terms of differential frailty, clear gender differences emerge. For women, the effect of attendance is race- and age-dependent, modifying the age at crossover by 10 years. For men, however, the effect of attendance is not related to race and does not alter the crossover pattern. When other health risks are modeled in terms of differential frailty, we find neither race nor age-related effects. Overall, the results highlight the importance of considering religious attendance when examining racial and gender differences in age-specific mortality rates.

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Authors
Dupre, M. E., Franzese, A. T., & Parrado, E. A.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Duke University (US)
ORCID
Venue
Demography
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2006-02-01
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
141-164
ISSN
  • 0070-3370 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-7790
DOI
10.1353/dem.2006.0004
OpenAlex
W2084835139
Cited by
142
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
FWCI
3.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Demography (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (n01ag042110-008)
  • National Institute on Aging (N01-AG-4-2110)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
Keywords
religious service attendance, mortality, racial differences in mortality, gender differences in mortality, population heterogeneity, age-specific mortality, older adults
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Black or African American, Demography, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Mortality, North Carolina, Prospective Studies, Religion, Risk Assessment, White People

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