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Title: Age, Cohort, and Changing Opportunity Structures: Educational Attainment and the Health Limitations of White Women From 1967 to 2012
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1. Wolfe, Joseph D.
Age, Cohort, and Changing Opportunity Structures: Educational Attainment and the Health Limitations of White Women From 1967 to 2012
Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97, Young Women
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Women

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A growing body of research shows that the association between educational attainment and health is at historic highs for white women. Rapid changes in labor force participation, access to high-paying jobs, and gender attitudes have radically altered the meaning of education for women’s lives and their dependence on the education of close kin. Drawing on three nationally representative, longitudinal surveys conducted from 1967 to 2012, this study examines how personal, parental, and spousal education levels contribute to the widening education gap in health limitations for successive cohorts of white women (N = 8,144). Overall, the proportion of women with health limitations did not change appreciably across cohorts, but the analysis uncovered cohort differences in the associations between personal and close kin education and women’s health limitations. Findings identify new sources of health inequalities and demonstrate the utility of opportunity structures in locating and explaining variation in the education-health association.
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Wolfe, Joseph D. "Age, Cohort, and Changing Opportunity Structures: Educational Attainment and the Health Limitations of White Women From 1967 to 2012." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017.