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Title: Income Mobility, Mortality, and Health in the U.S.
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Daza, Sebastian |
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Income Mobility, Mortality, and Health in the U.S. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Mobility, Economic; Modeling, Marginal Structural; Mortality; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The difference in life expectancy between the highest-paid and lowest-paid members of US society exceeds 14 years. The gap is approximately equivalent to eighty years of secular improvement in mortality. This dissertation examines the US stratification regime features that contribute to such large, persistent differences in longevity. I examine how income mobility--or the rigidity of social stratification--shapes population health inequality in the US. In doing so, I show that income mobility arguably plays a larger role in producing health disparities than does income inequality, i.e., the distribution of material resources. Although these dimensions of stratification are related, the mechanisms connecting income mobility and health are theoretically distinct and independent from those that arise as a result of inequality. I demonstrate that these mechanisms can have powerful and lasting consequences for population health. I use three strategies to make this argument. First, I descriptively analyze aggregated data in the US to assess the magnitude, robustness, and variability of the relationship between income mobility and mortality. I then analyze cohorts of individuals followed longitudinally in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. I use marginal structural models to examine the mechanisms linking features of the income mobility regime and health outcomes. Building on these analyses, I design an agent-based model to formalize relationships among the mechanisms linking income mobility and health. These virtual representations help elucidate implications of the theory. They also provide a general framework with which to assess previous research and to design new inquiries on stratification and survival. |
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Daza, Sebastian. Income Mobility, Mortality, and Health in the U.S. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021. |