Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2013
Summary:
Health researchers often use the life-course perspective, exploring how
long-range experiences in one life domain may influence, and be influenced by,
those in another. We develop a multiple-process latent transition model (MPLTM)
to estimate changes in health and poverty dynamics simultaneously, using
repeated measures of self-rated health and income for working-aged adults from
the British Household Panel Survey. We apply the model to quantify concurrent
and longitudinal effects to assess whether changes in these two processes are
related or independent. Model extensions add time-invariant (cohort, gender) and
time-varying (weeks nonemployed in previous year) covariates. We find both
concurrent and bidirectional longitudinal relationships between poverty and
health, with nonemployment appearing to mediate longitudinal health-to-poverty
effects and confound longitudinal poverty-to-health effects. The MPLTM can
provide quantitative estimates of complex interlocking processes that are often
difficult to measure and assess.
Published in
Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 9 , p.162 -177
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-2241/a000061
ISSN
16141881
Subjects
Notes
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