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Unequal before death: The effect of paternal education on children’s old-age mortality in the United States

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  • Hamid Noghanibehambari
  • Jason Fletcher

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A growing body of research documents the relevance of parental education as a marker of family socio-economic status for children’s later-life health outcomes. A strand of this literature evaluates how the early-life environment shapes mortality outcomes during infancy and childhood. However, the evidence on mortality during the life course and old age is limited. This paper contributes to the literature by analysing the association between paternal education and children’s old-age mortality. We use data from Social Security Administration death records over the years 1988–2005 linked to the United States 1940 Census. Applying a family(cousin)- fixed-effects model to account for shared environment, childhood exposures, and common endowments that may confound the long-term links, we find that having a father with a college or high-school education, compared with elementary/no education, is associated with a 4.6- or 2.6-month-higher age at death, respectively, for the child, conditional on them surviving to age 47.

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  • Hamid Noghanibehambari & Jason Fletcher, 2024. "Unequal before death: The effect of paternal education on children’s old-age mortality in the United States," Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 78(2), pages 203-229, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpstxx:v:78:y:2024:i:2:p:203-229
    DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2284766
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