Scholars of social determinants of health have long been interested in how parent's and own education influence health. However, the differing effects of parent's and own education on health-that is, for what socioeconomic group education conveys health benefits-are relatively less studied. Using multilevel marginal structural models, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of parent's and own education over the life course on two health measures. Our analysis considers both parent's and respondent's pre-education covariates, such as childhood health and socioeconomic conditions. We find that the protective effects of college completion against negative health outcomes are remarkably similar regardless of parent's (measured by father's or mother's) education. Meanwhile, parent's education has a larger effect when the average educational level is low in the population. Our results also reveal distinct life course patterns between health measures. We conclude by discussing the implications of our study for understanding the education-health relationship.

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教育为谁带来健康益处？两代人和生命历程方法。


长期以来，研究健康社会决定因素的学者一直对父母和自己的教育如何影响健康感兴趣。然而，父母和自己的教育对健康的不同影响——即社会经济群体教育所传达的健康益处——的研究相对较少。使用多级边际结构模型，我们估计了父母和自己的教育在生命过程中对两项健康指标的异质性影响。我们的分析考虑了父母和受访者的教育前协变量，例如儿童健康状况和社会经济条件。我们发现，无论父母的教育程度如何（以父亲或母亲衡量），大学毕业对负面健康结果的保护作用都非常相似。同时，当人口的平均教育水平较低时，父母的教育影响更大。我们的结果还揭示了健康措施之间不同的生命历程模式。最后，我们讨论了我们的研究对理解教育-健康关系的意义。