Doctoral Dissertation Research: Physical Activity and Aging in the US

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This dissertation uses Health and Retirement Study data to investigate the role of exercise in explaining racial and gender disparities in health among older Americans. Exercise can be regarded as a type of investment that people make in their own health. These health investments are hypothesized to be affected by the other kinds of capital that people possess: economic, social, and cultural. Multiple dimensions of each of these forms of capital will be tested for their relationships with exercise. Racial/ethnic and gender differences in exercise may be explained in part by varying levels of social, economic, and cultural capital.