Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2011

Allison Tracy, Ph.D. will present “SES in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Health Behaviors” at the 10th International Conference on Health Economics, Management, and Policy to be held in Athens, Greece in late June. The paper, co-authored with Alice Frye, Ph.D., describes a study that (1) uses latent class analysis to identify the empirical structure of socioeconomic status (SES) in emerging adulthood, (2) examines the relevance of profiles of SES to mental and physical health, and (3) tests policyrelevant predictors of identified SES disparities.