[Poscgrad] Fwd: 5/7/24 SPP Research Seminar

[Jennifer Merolla]

Upcoming talk by Bruce Link (see below)

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Mark C. Long, MPP <https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp>, Ph.D.

Dean & Professor, School of Public Policy

University of California, Riverside
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From: SPP Deans Office <spp-dean at ucr.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Subject: 5/7/24 SPP Research Seminar
To: <spp-faculty at ucr.edu>


SPP Research Seminar

With Seminar Speaker:

* Bruce Link *

*Professor of Public Policy and Sociology*

Tuesday, May 7 2024

Time: 12pm-1:30pm | Location: INTN 4023


* Do Childhood Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Traits Account for Racial and
Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Adult Life? *

*A Prospective Life Course Study*


*Abstract:*

A prominent body of scholarship assigns traits such as intelligence,
self-confidence, and self-control central roles in the emergence of health
inequalities by socioeconomic status and race. Strongly stated versions of
these explanations claim that traits like these not only influence one’s
socioeconomic attainment, but also affect other life chances including
one’s capacity to live a long and healthy life. In this formulation health
inequalities by race and socioeconomic status emerge in the repeated
expression of these valuable traits across the life course. Because such
traits develop early in life, policy needs to focus on the critical period
of early childhood so that deficits in these traits can be addressed among
disadvantaged groups. Despite the prominence of this thesis, the life
course data needed to rigorously test it has not been available. The
opportunity to implement such a test arose in the context of a study we
conducted of approximately 50-year-old black and white study participants
(N=605) whose mothers were first recruited into the Child Health and
Development Studies when they were pregnant with the participant. The data
contain the requisite prospectively ascertained life-course measures of
health, socioeconomic status and cognitive and non-cognitive traits to
allow a strong test of trait explanations for health inequalities. Results
show no evidence that traits are independently associated with adult health
or that they account for race or SES inequalities in health. We need to
look elsewhere to understand why health inequalities by race and SES are
such prominent social facts


Boxed lunch provided to the first 17 in attendance

Space is limited

Any questions, please email:

nicole.jimenez at ucr.edu


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University of California, Riverside
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