Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts
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 v...
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| author | Jithin Sam Varghese Clive Osmond Aryeh D. Stein |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-ef7ab810c08b4c3fb34a865b1be7414e2022-12-22T03:53:48ZengBMCBMC Medical Research Methodology1471-22882022-10-0122111310.1186/s12874-022-01757-9Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohortsJithin Sam Varghese0Clive Osmond1Aryeh D. Stein2Laney Graduate School, Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory UniversityMedical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of SouthamptonHubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory UniversityAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01757-9Asset indexConditional wealthLife course epidemiologySocial mobilitySocioeconomic position |
| spellingShingle | Jithin Sam Varghese Clive Osmond Aryeh D. Stein Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts BMC Medical Research Methodology Asset index Conditional wealth Life course epidemiology Social mobility Socioeconomic position |
| title | Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts |
| title_full | Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts |
| title_fullStr | Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts |
| title_short | Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts |
| title_sort | conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low and middle income country cohorts |
| topic | Asset index Conditional wealth Life course epidemiology Social mobility Socioeconomic position |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01757-9 |
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