Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts
Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts
Temporally harmonized asset indices allow the study of changes in relative wealth (mean, variance, social mobility) over time and its association with adult health and human capital in cohort studies. Conditional measures are the unexplained residuals of an indicator regressed on its past values. Using such measures, previously used to study the relative importance of key life stages for anthropometric growth, we can identify specific life stages during which changes in relative wealth are important for adult health in longitudinal studies. We discuss the assumptions, strengths and limitations of this methodology as applied to relative wealth. We provide an illustrative example using a publicly-available longitudinal dataset and show how relative wealth changes at different life stages are differentially associated with body mass index in adulthood.
Asset index, Conditional wealth, Life course epidemiology, Social mobility, Socioeconomic position
Varghese, Jithin Sam
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Osmond, Clive
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Stein, Aryeh D
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27 October 2022
Varghese, Jithin Sam
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Osmond, Clive
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Stein, Aryeh D
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Varghese, Jithin Sam, Osmond, Clive and Stein, Aryeh D
(2022)
Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts.
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22 (1), [279].
(doi:10.1186/s12874-022-01757-9).
Abstract
Temporally harmonized asset indices allow the study of changes in relative wealth (mean, variance, social mobility) over time and its association with adult health and human capital in cohort studies. Conditional measures are the unexplained residuals of an indicator regressed on its past values. Using such measures, previously used to study the relative importance of key life stages for anthropometric growth, we can identify specific life stages during which changes in relative wealth are important for adult health in longitudinal studies. We discuss the assumptions, strengths and limitations of this methodology as applied to relative wealth. We provide an illustrative example using a publicly-available longitudinal dataset and show how relative wealth changes at different life stages are differentially associated with body mass index in adulthood.
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 October 2022
Published date: 27 October 2022
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Keywords:
Asset index, Conditional wealth, Life course epidemiology, Social mobility, Socioeconomic position
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Local EPrints ID: 472025
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472025
ISSN: 1471-2288
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Jithin Sam Varghese
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Aryeh D Stein
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