Rising educational gradients in mortality: The role of behavioral risk factors
Rising educational gradients in mortality: The role of behavioral risk factors
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.06.009
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Ruhm, Christopher J.
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作者：
Cutler, David M.;Lange, Fabian;Ruhm, Christopher J.
教育与死亡率之间长期存在的负相关关系在 20 世纪末大幅加强。本文探讨了这种增长的原因。我们表明行为风险因素并不是最重要的。受教育程度较高的人吸烟率下降幅度更大，但不足以解释这一趋势。不同教育群体的肥胖率上升速度相似，血压和胆固醇的控制也相当一致地提高。相反，我们的结果表明，风险因素的死亡率回报率，以及以风险因素为条件的教育回报率，随着时间的推移而增加。 (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
The long-standing inverse relationship between education and mortality strengthened substantially at the end of the 20th century. This paper examines the reasons for this increase. We show that behavioral risk factors are not of primary importance. Smoking declined more for the better educated, but not enough to explain the trend. Obesity rose at similar rates across education groups, and control of blood pressure and cholesterol increased fairly uniformly as well. Rather, our results show that the mortality returns to risk factors, and conditional on risk factors, the return to education, have grown over time. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.