Educational Pathways and Cigarette Smoking in Early and Mid-adulthood: Findings From the Nlsy79 Cohort
Year: 2018
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Over the past four decades, educational disparities in tobacco use have widened in the United States. At the same time, there has been an increase in the prevalence of non-normative educational pathways – that is, the length of time it takes to complete one’s education. I take advantage of these two historical trends by examining the relationship between educational pathways and daily smoking in early (~30–35 years) and mid-adulthood (~50–55 years) using prospective and retrospective data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The NLSY79 cohort is ideal for examining this question because they entered adulthood after the Surgeon General’s Report and as educational pathways became more heterogeneous. I expect respondents who attained a bachelor’s degree by their early 20’s will have similar rates of smoking in early adulthood, but lower rates of smoking in mid-adulthood, than respondents who attained a bachelor’s degree after their early 20’s.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Author: K Walsemann
Institution: University of South Carolina
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2900110597