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- The educational gradient of U.S. adult mortality became steeper from 1960 to the mid-1980s, with unclear trends afterward due to limited research.
- Results from a study using data from 1986 to 2006 indicate that for white and black men, mortality risk declined more significantly for those with higher education levels, particularly among older age groups.
- The trend also showed a steeper gradient for white women, while for black women, there was a slight and marginally significant steepening attributed to decreased mortality risk in college-educated women compared to those with lower education levels.
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The educational gradient of U.S. adult mortality became steeper between 1960 and the mid 1980s, but whether it continued to steepen is less clear given a dearth of attention to these trends since that time. This study provides new evidence on trends in the education-mortality gradient from 1986 to 2006 by race, gender, and age among non-Hispanic whites and blacks using data from the 2010 release of the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File. Results show that, for white and black men, the gradient steepened among older ages because declines in mortality risk across education levels were greater among the higher educated. The gradient steepened among white women, and to a much lesser and only marginally significant extent among black women, largely because mortality risk decreased among the college-educated but increased among women with less than a high school degree. Greater returns to higher education and compositional changes within educational strata likely contributed to the trends.
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