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Validation of a theoretically motivated approach to measuring childhood socioeconomic circumstances in the Health and Retirement Study

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  • Anusha M Vable
  • Paola Gilsanz
  • Thu T Nguyen
  • Ichiro Kawachi
  • M Maria Glymour

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Childhood socioeconomic status (cSES) is a powerful predictor of adult health, but its operationalization and measurement varies across studies. Using Health and Retirement Study data (HRS, which is nationally representative of community-residing United States adults aged 50+ years), we specified theoretically-motivated cSES measures, evaluated their reliability and validity, and compared their performance to other cSES indices. HRS respondent data (N = 31,169, interviewed 1992–2010) were used to construct a cSES index reflecting childhood social capital (cSC), childhood financial capital (cFC), and childhood human capital (cHC), using retrospective reports from when the respondent was 0.05 vs.

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  • Anusha M Vable & Paola Gilsanz & Thu T Nguyen & Ichiro Kawachi & M Maria Glymour, 2017. "Validation of a theoretically motivated approach to measuring childhood socioeconomic circumstances in the Health and Retirement Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(10), pages 1-23, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0185898
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185898
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