Childhood Economic Resources and Mature Adult Health

儿童经济资源与成年健康

基本信息

批准号：
10084220
负责人：
David Brady
金额：
$ 7.43万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-15 至 2022-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10084220
关键词：
Adolescent Adult Age Child Childhood Code Conceptions Data Data Set Economic Conditions Economically Deprived Population Economics Elderly Elements Health Health Sciences Health behavior Household Income Income Distributions Inequality Infrastructure International Intervention Knowledge Life Cycle Stages Link Literature Measurement Measures Mediating Methods Outcome Pathway interactions Patient Self-Report Plant Roots Poverty Process Prospective Studies Public Policy Reporting Research Resources Respondent Role Sampling Scholarship Shapes Side Signal Transduction Social Sciences Source Sum Taxes Testing Time Work adjudication aged base deprivation early childhood emerging adult health disparity health disparity populations healthy aging improved innovation insight novel panel study of income dynamics prospective social health determinants socioeconomics

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Recent research provides novel evidence that childhood economic disadvantage undermines health among older adults. Despite valuable contributions, most US-based research on this provocative theme has relied on retrospective recollections of childhood resources from decades in the past. Even with prospective data, this literature largely uses measures of childhood economic resources that do not rise to leading international standards. We improve upon past research in critical ways by more fully incorporating leading international standards in income measurement into the study of health. We will use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a large, nationally representative study that prospectively measures childhood economic resources as well as a variety of health outcomes in mature adulthood. We capitalize on a pivotal strength of the PSID when merged with the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF): comprehensive and higher quality prospective measures of childhood income inclusive of taxes and transfers. We will strategically exploit the most recent waves of the PSID-CNEF to include a larger sample of children from the 1970s and 1980s who have reached ages 40-63 by 2017. Our project has three specific aims. First, we will provide the most rigorous assessment to date of the relationship between childhood economic resources and mature adult health outcomes. More precisely, our innovations will demonstrate (a) potential nonlinearities and critical thresholds in the income- health relationship; (b) which measures of mature adult health are most influenced by childhood income; and (c) which elements of economic resources are most crucial to mature adult health. Second, we will assess whether relative or absolute childhood income is most important to mature adult health. Third, we will investigate the role of adult socio-economic attainment and adult health behaviors as mediating pathways. Finally, we will build a public good infrastructure of code for replication and to encourage better measurement of childhood economic resources in studies using the same or other datasets. By incorporating leading standards in income measurement, and utilizing higher quality data on prospectively measured childhood income and a wide variety of health outcomes among older adults, this project has the potential to make novel and salient contributions. We aim to improve understanding of the relationship between childhood economic resources and mature adult health. More generally, we will contribute to several fields in the social science of health, healthy aging, and health disparities. By making these contributions, we will advance these fields’ already valuable knowledge for public policy. Specifically, our research can inform more effective targeting of interventions – at which points in the childhood income distribution and through which mediating pathways – to improve mature adult health. Our research can also guide health practitioners with more reliable and predictive early warning signals for specific health problems in mature adulthood.

项目摘要最近的研究提供了新的证据，表明儿童经济灾难破坏了健康老年人。尽管有宝贵的贡献，但大多数基于美国关于此挑衅性主题的研究已被挽救过去几十年来，回顾性回忆。即使有前瞻性数据，文学在很大程度上使用了童年经济资源的衡量标准标准。我们通过更充分地融入领先的国际收入测量标准的健康研究。我们将使用收入动态的小组研究（PSID），一项大型国家代表性研究，前瞻性地衡量儿童经济资源以及成年的各种健康成果。当我们利用PSID的关键强度时与跨国等效文件（CNEF）合并：全面，更高质量的预期儿童收入的措施，包括税收和转让。我们将策略性地探索最新的 PSID-CNEF的波浪包括1970年代和1980年代的较大儿童样本到2017年，年龄40-63岁。我们的项目具有三个特定的目标。首先，我们将提供最严格的评估儿童经济资源与成熟成人健康成果之间关系的日期。更多的确切地说，我们的创新将证明（a）收入中的潜在非线性和关键阈值 - 卫生关系；（b）哪些成人健康的措施受儿童收入影响最大；和（c）哪些经济资源因素对于成熟的成人健康至关重要。第二，我们将评估相对或绝对的儿童收入对成熟的成人健康还是最重要的。第三，我们会的研究成人社会经济成就和成人健康行为作为介导途径的作用。最后，我们将建立一个公共良好的基础架构，以进行复制，并鼓励更好的测量使用相同或其他数据集的研究中的儿童经济资源。通过编码领导收入衡量标准，并使用高质量的数据来预期测量的童年在老年人中，收入和各种各样的健康成果，该项目有可能使新颖和显着的贡献。我们旨在提高对童年经济之间关系的理解资源和成熟的成人健康。更普遍地，我们将为社会科学的几个领域做出贡献健康，健康衰老和健康差异。通过做出这些贡献，我们将推进这些领域公共政策已经有价值的知识。具体而言，我们的研究可以为更有效的定位提供干预措施 - 在童年收入分配中的哪个点以及调解途径的情况下 - 改善成熟的成人健康。我们的研究还可以指导健康从业者具有更可靠和预测的预警信号在成熟成年中针对特定健康问题。