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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018

Maternal Educational Attainment at Birth Promotes Future Self-Rated Health of White but Not Black Youth: A 15-Year Cohort of a National Sample.

Shervin Assari, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Ronald B Mincy

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shervin AssariDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. assari@umich.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5054-6250
Cleopatra Howard CaldwellCenter for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. cleoc@umich.edu.
Ronald B MincyCenter for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Well-Being, New York, NY 10027-5927, USA. rmincysr@gmail.com.

Funding

Fragile Families and the Transition to AdulthoodR01HD036916 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Kathryn Edin, Jane Waldfogel · 1999 to 2026
$46.3M
ECONOMIC STATUS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND CHILD NEGLECTR01HD039135 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI PAXSON, CHRISTINA H · 2000 to 2004
$3.1M
Child Care and Parental Employment in Fragile FamiliesR01HD040421 · NICHD · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE · PI BROOKS-GUNN, JEANNE · 2002 to 2006
$2.8M
Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Summer Data WorkshopR25HD074544 · NICHD · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Amanda Geller, Julien O Teitler · 2013 to 2026
$1.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD036916NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD039135NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040421NICHD NIH HHS R25 HD074544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSocioeconomic status (SES) is essential for maintaining health, and self-rated health (SRH) is not an exception to this rule. This study explored racial differences in the protective effects of maternal educational attainment at birth against poor SRH of the youth 15 years later.

methodsUsing data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), this 15-year longitudinal study followed 1934 youths from birth to age 15. This sample was composed of White (

resultsIn the pooled sample, maternal educational attainment and family structure were not predictive of SRH for the youths at age 15. Race interacted with maternal educational attainment, indicating a stronger association between maternal educational attainment at birth on youth SRH for Whites compared to Blacks. In race stratified models, maternal educational attainment at birth was protective against poor SRH for White but not Black youths.

conclusionWhite but not Black youths gain less SRH from their maternal educational attainment. Enhancing education attainment may not have identical effects across racial groups. The health status of Blacks may be less responsive to improvements in maternal educational attainment. Policies should go beyond investing in educational attainment by empowering Black families to better use the educational attainment that they gain. Policies and programs should reduce the costs of upward social mobility for minority families.

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educationethnicityraceself-rated healthsocial classsocial determinants of healthsocioeconomic status

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PMID29723957
PMCPMC5977132

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