Old and new inequalities in educational attainment

Obesity and Educational Attainment

This research estimates the influence of adolescent weight status on levels of educational attainment. Prior studies have found a causal role of obesity in other economic outcomes such as income. Given the crucial role of human capital investments for economic success, estimates of the causal influence of weight problems on education accumulation are provided. Models ignoring the potential endo...

New Poincaré Inequalities from Old

We discuss a geometric method, which we refer to as Coning, for generating new Poincaré type inequalities from old ones. In particular, we derive weighted Poincaré inequalities for star-shaped domains and variant Trudinger inequalities for another class of domains. By a Poincaré type inequality, in the widest sense, we mean a norm inequality in which the variation of a function from its “averag...

Educational attainment, gender and health inequalities among older adults in Catalonia (Spain)

BACKGROUND Health expectancies vary worldwide according to socioeconomic status (SES), with health disadvantages being evident among lower SES groups. Using educational attainment as a proxy of SES, we seek to identify trends in SES differentials in health by gender, with a particular focus on individuals with low educational attainment in the adult Catalan population (Spain) aged 55 or older. ...

Stuttering severity and educational attainment.

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between self-reported stuttering severity ratings and educational attainment. METHOD Participants were 147 adults seeking treatment for stuttering. At pretreatment assessment, each participant reported the highest educational level they had attained and rated their typical and worst stuttering severity on a 9-point scale for a range of speaking...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment