TY - JOUR
T1 - Men’s income trajectories and physical and mental health at midlife
AU - Frech, Adrianne
AU - Damaske, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information:
1Both authors contributed equally. The authors thank Jessica Halliday Hardie, Steven Haas, Erin Kelly, Richard Petts, Jarron Saint Onge, Ranjan Shrestha, Mark Tausig, and members of the working paper group at the School of Labor and Employment Studies at Penn State for their valuable comments. Research reported in this publication was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; R03HD088806 and P2CHD04102). The © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0002-9602/2019/12405-0002$10.00
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PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Using time-varying, prospectively measured income in a nationally representative sample of baby-boomer men (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979), the authors identify eight group-based trajectories of income between ages 25 and 49 and use multinomial treatment models to describe the associations between group-based income trajectories and mental and physical health at midlife. The authors find remarkable rigidity in income trajectories: less than 25% of the sample experiences significant upward or downward mobility between ages 25 and 49, and most who move remain or move into poverty. Men’s physical and mental health at age 50 is strongly associated with their income trajectories, and some upwardly mobile men achieve the same physical and mental health as the highest earning men after adjusting for selection. The worse physical and mental health of men on other income trajectories is largely attributable to their early life disadvantages, health behaviors, and cumulative work experiences.
AB - Using time-varying, prospectively measured income in a nationally representative sample of baby-boomer men (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979), the authors identify eight group-based trajectories of income between ages 25 and 49 and use multinomial treatment models to describe the associations between group-based income trajectories and mental and physical health at midlife. The authors find remarkable rigidity in income trajectories: less than 25% of the sample experiences significant upward or downward mobility between ages 25 and 49, and most who move remain or move into poverty. Men’s physical and mental health at age 50 is strongly associated with their income trajectories, and some upwardly mobile men achieve the same physical and mental health as the highest earning men after adjusting for selection. The worse physical and mental health of men on other income trajectories is largely attributable to their early life disadvantages, health behaviors, and cumulative work experiences.
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U2 - 10.1086/702775
DO - 10.1086/702775
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065058148
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 124
SP - 1372
EP - 1412
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 5
ER -