Education and physical health trajectories in old age. Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Liliya Leopold () and Henriette Engelhartdt ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 58, issue 1, 23-31

Abstract: Although our results mainly supported the model of cumulative inequality, they also showed that the trajectory of the education-health gradient is not uniform but varies across different dimensions of physical health. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2013

Keywords: Cumulative advantage; Education and health; Old age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-012-0399-0

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