Eliminating health disparities is a fundamental, though not always explicit, goal of public
health research and practice. There is a burgeoning literature in this area, but a number of …

Differentials in health and longevity by socioeconomic status and by the nature of social
relationships have been found in innumerable studies in the social and medical sciences …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the …

I discuss mechanisms linking health and inequality and review evidence for effects of
income inequality on aggregate and individual mortality, over time and over space. I …

Men in the United States with family incomes in the top 5 percent of the distribution in 1980
had about 25 percent longer to live than did those in the bottom 5 percent. Proportional …

This paper provides statistical methods that permit the association of socioeconomic status
and health to be partially unraveled in panel data by excluding some postulated causal …

A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income
inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded …

Trying to understand why mortality is so strongly related to socioeconomic status (SES) has
been a major concern in demography, epidemiology, and public health for many years, and …

We explore whether health is vulnerable to income shocks, focusing on a recent crisis in
Russia during which many pensioners were not paid for an extended period of time. Using …

How does schooling shape the lives of adults? This question, posed in different ways, has
been a central theme of the sociology of education in the United States and abroad. The …