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

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

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-23

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2017
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