SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH IN THE WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY

健康选择过程在多大程度上对不同人群的成人健康差异负责？ 社会经济群体？有没有可能，至少有一部分长期存在的“相当活跃的成年人， 美国和其他发达国家的健康和死亡率不平等， 经历早期儿童健康问题的个人最终进入较低等级的班级的过程 以及健康状况更差的人如果是的话，是大部分还是小部分？这个项目试图回答 这些问题的个人谁属于高中类的1957年在威斯康星州纵向 研究（WLS）。为此，我们承担三项不同的任务。第一个任务是根据经验估计 教育和财富对成年人健康状况和死亡率的相对“纯粹”影响，即从 由于不可观测的污染。第二个任务是估计生产的替代模式， 成人健康和死亡率，考虑到早期条件和养育。估计这些 然后可以部署替代模型（通过蒙特卡罗模拟），对 教育和财富分为两类：第一类只包括直接影响，即与教育和财富相关的影响。 财富和教育固有的特征;第二类是由“间接效应”组成的，即， 这些机制将健康状况和死亡率以及财富和教育联系起来， 发生在个体生命早期的过程。我们建议完成的第三项任务是评估 我们获得的结果是否以及在多大程度上是WLS特有的（鉴于其独特的配置），或者 更广泛地适用于美国人口。为此目的，我们使用健康研究中的队列。 退休调查。

To what extent are health selection processes responsible for adult health disparities among different socioeconomic groups? Is it possible that at least part of the long-lasting presence'of quite vigorous adult health and mortality inequalities in the US and other developed countries owes a non trivial contribution to processes whereby individuals who experience early child health problems end up in lower ranking classes as well as in poorer health status? And if so, is it a large or a small part? This project attempts to answer these questions for individuals who belong to the high school class of 1957 in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS). In order to do so, we undertake three different tasks. The first task is to empirically estimate relatively 'pure' effects of education and wealth on adult health status and mortality, that is, purged from contamination due to unobservables. The second task is to estimate alternative models for the production of adult health and mortality that take account of early conditions and upbringing. The estimates of these alternative models can then be deployed (via Monte Carlo simulation) to classify the estimated effects of education and wealth into two categories: the first includes only direct effects, that is those associated with characteristics inherent to wealth and education; the second class is comprised of 'indirect effects', namely, those resulting from mechanisms that link health status and mortality as well as wealth and education to processes that occur early in the life of the individual. The third task we propose to accomplish is to evaluate if and to what an extent the results we obtain are peculiar to the WLS (given its unique configuration) or rather, apply more generally to the US population. For this purpose we use the cohorts followed in the Health and RetirementSurvey.