Friday, May 1 / 12:30 PM - 2:20 PM   •   Ambassador Ballroom 3

Session 111:
Socioeconomic Differentials in Health and Mortality

Chair: Jon Hussey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Sam Preston, University of Pennsylvania

  1. Family Processes and Changing Educational Gradients in SmokingVida Maralani, Yale University

  2. Why Is the Educational Gradient in Mortality Steeper for Men than Women in the United States?Jennifer Karas Montez, University of Texas at Austin ; Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin ; Dustin C. Brown, University of Texas at Austin

  3. The Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Education: A Comparison of Costa Rica (CRELES) and the United States (NHANES)David Rehkopf, University of California, San Francisco ; William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley

  4. Health Disadvantage and Educational Level in European Welfare States: Longitudinal Results from the SHARE StudyMauricio Avendano pabon, Harvard School of Public Health ; Hendrik Juerges, University of Mannheim ; Johan P. Mackenbach, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam

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