Is educational mobility harmful for health?

Soc Sci Res

Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Ave. Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA. Electronic address:

Published: September 2022

"Mobility effects" research to date provides mixed evidence about the health consequences of social mobility and pays limited attention to race differences in mobility effects. To address this gap in the literature, this study explores the association between downward mobility and upward mobility with health and how these associations vary between Black people and White people. Diagonal reference models are used to estimate the effects of intergenerational educational mobility on self-rated health and mortality using data from the U.S. General Social Survey (1972-2016) with linked mortality records (1978-2014). Results show that downward mobility is associated with worse self-rated health and higher mortality risk. Downward mobility appears more damaging to the health of White people relative to Black people. Upward mobility appears less beneficial to the health of Black people. These findings indicate that social mobility itself is consequential for health and suggest that downward mobility is detrimental to health.

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