A multilevel structural equation model for the interrelationships between multiple latent dimensions of childhood socio‐economic circumstances, partnership transitions and mid‐life health

Yajing Zhu, Fiona Steele and Irini Moustaki

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Abstract: We propose a multilevel structural equation model to investigate the interrelationships between childhood socio-economic circumstances, partnership formation and stability, and mid-life health, using data from the 1958 British birth cohort. The structural equation model comprises latent class models that characterize the patterns of change in four dimensions of childhood socio-economic circumstances and a joint regression model that relates these categorical latent variables to partnership transitions in adulthood and mid-life health, while allowing for informative dropout. The model can be extended to handle multiple outcomes of mixed types and at different levels in a hierarchical data structure.

Keywords: event histroy analysis; non-ignorable dropout; latent variable model; multilevel model; 3-step approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2020-06-01
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Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 1, June, 2020, 183(3), pp. 1029 - 1050. ISSN: 0964-1998

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