NDLI: The Benefits of Educational Attainment for U.S. Adult Mortality: Are they Contingent on the Broader Environment?

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Author	Montez, Jennifer Karas Barnes, Kaitlyn
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The growing recognition that educational attainment is one of the strongest preventive factors for adult health and longevity has fueled an interest in educational attainment as a population health strategy. However, less attention has been given to identifying social, economic, and behavioral resources that may moderate the health and longevity benefits of education. We draw on theories of resource substitution and multiplication to examine the extent to which the education–mortality association is contingent on other resources (marriage, employment, income, healthy lifestyles). We use data on adults aged 30–84 in the 1997–2006 National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File and estimate discrete-time event history models stratified by gender (N = 146,558; deaths = 10,399). We find that the mortality benefits of education are generally largest for adults—especially women—who have other resources such as employment and marriage, supporting the theory of resource multiplication. Nonetheless, our results also imply that other resources can potentially attenuate the mortality disadvantages (advantages) associated with low (high) levels of education. The findings suggest that efforts to improve population health and longevity by raising education levels should be augmented with strategies that assure widespread access to social, economic, and behavioral resources.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	100
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01675923
Journal	Population Research and Policy Review
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737829
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-10-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Education Gradient Mortality Gender NHIS-LMF Demography Sociology Population Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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