Affiliation:
1. David Warner is a postdoctoral scholar in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests broadly center on the role of marriage and family in shaping work and health across the life course, with an emphasis on gender and race-ethnicity differentials. He is currently involved in projects examining marriage differences in work and retirement behavior and family-of-origin influences on the development of health-risk behaviors among young adults.
2. Mark D. Hayward is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. His research agenda focuses on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in adult health and mortality. Currently, his work concentrates on the influence of socioeconomic and family conditions across the life course on adult health.
Abstract
Using a life course framework, we examine the early life origins of the race gap in men's all-cause mortality. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men (1966–1990), we evaluate major social pathways by which early life conditions differentiate the mortality experiences of blacks and whites. Our findings indicate that early life socioeconomic conditions, particularly parental occupation and family structure, explain part of the race gap in mortality. Black men's higher rates of death are associated with lower socioeconomic standing in early life and living in homes lacking both biological parents. However, these effects operate indirectly through adult socioeconomic achievement processes, as education, family income, wealth, and occupational complexity statistically account for the race gap in men's mortality. Our findings suggest that policy interventions to eliminate race disparities in mortality and health should address both childhood and adult socioeconomic conditions.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology
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