Showing papers by "Sarah A. Mustillo published in 2018"
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TL;DR: Risky parental behavior and impairment in childhood were associated with higher odds of all-site cancer prevalence, and childhood chronic disease was associated with prostate cancer, even after adjusting for adult health and socioeconomic factors.
Abstract: Objective: To examine the effect of five childhood misfortune domains—parental behavior, socioeconomic status, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and impairments—on all-site and selected site-s...
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TL;DR: Downward mobility in the absence of early childhood poverty does not significantly increase adulthood obesity risk, providing further evidence that early childhood is a critical period for developing risk of overweight and obesity.
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TL;DR: The findings reveal that women who experienced health limitations accumulated substantially less wealth over time, especially if the health limitations were manifest during childhood or early adulthood.
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Guided by cumulative inequality theory, this study poses two main questions: (a) Does women's poor health compromise household financial assets? (b) If yes, is wealth sensitive to the timing of women's health limitations? In addressing these questions, we consider the effect of health limitations on wealth at older ages, as well as examine how health limitations influence wealth over particular segments of the life course, giving attention to both the onset and duration of health limitations. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using 36 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, piecewise growth curve and linear regression models were used to estimate the effects of life course timing and duration of health limitations on household wealth. RESULTS The findings reveal that women who experienced health limitations accumulated substantially less wealth over time, especially if the health limitations were manifest during childhood or early adulthood. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS This study identifies how early-life health problems lead to less wealth in later life.
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TL;DR: Although a large body of literature has documented that China's market transition from state socialism led to substantial changes in the social stratification order, little is known about t... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Although a large body of literature has documented that China’s market transition from state socialism led to substantial changes in the social stratification order, little is known about t...
7 citations