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？两代人的生命历程方法。


健康问题社会决定因素的学者长期以来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对健康的益处）的研究相对较少。使用多层次边际结构模型，我们估计了父母和自己的教育在生命历程中对两种健康指标的异质影响。我们的分析考虑了父母和受访者的学前教育协变量，例如儿童健康和社会经济条件。我们发现，无论父母（以父亲或母亲的教育程度衡量）的教育程度如何，完成大学学业对负面健康结果的保护作用都非常相似。同时，当人口平均受教育程度较低时，父母受教育程度的影响更大。我们的结果还揭示了健康指标之间不同的生命历程模式。最后，我们讨论了我们的研究对于理解教育与健康关系的影响。