Mother's Education and Infant Mortality Rates in the United States: Why Are There Black-White Differences? • Jacob Adetunji, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Socioeconomic Differentials in Health and Mortality in Mid-Life: Cause or Effect? • Michael Hurd, RAND

The Impact of Chronic Financial Strain on the Health Status of Older Adults • Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland ; Leonard I. Pearlin, University of Maryland

Racial Disparities in Men's Mortality: The Role of Childhood Social Conditions in a Process of Cumulative Disadvantage • David F. Warner, Pennsylvania State University ; Mark D. Hayward, Pennsylvania State University

Job Characteristics as Mechanisms in SES-Health Relationships • John R. Warren, University of Washington ; Pascale Carayon, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Peter Honnakker, University of Wisconsin at Madison