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Title: What Do Growing Childhood Socioeconomic Inequalities Mean for the Future of Inequalities in Adult Health?

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Over the past half century, American children have experienced increasingly unequalchildhoods. The goal of this chapter is to begin to understand the implications of recent trends insocial and economic inequalities among children for the future of inequalities in health amongadults. The relative importance of many of the causal pathways linking childhood social and economic circumstances to adult health remains underexplored, and we know even less about how the magnitudes of some of these causal pathways have changed over time. In this chapter, I combine a series of original analyses with reviews of relevant literature in a number of fields to inform my discussion of what growing childhood inequalities might mean for future inequalities in adult health. In the end, I argue that there is good reason to suppose that growing inequalities in childrens social and economic circumstances will lead to greater heterogeneity in adults morbidity and mortality.

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Authors: Warren, John Robert

Publisher: Minnesota Population Center

Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Health, Race and Ethnicity

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