Association between disparities in intergenerational economic mobility and cause-specific mortality among Black and White persons in the United States

Evidence about the association between structural racism and mortality in the United States is limited. We examined the association between ongoing structural racism, measured as inequalities in adulthood income between White and Black children with similar parental household income (economic mobility gap) in a recent birth cohort, and Black-White disparities in death rates (mortality gap) overall and for major causes.Sex-, race/ethnicity-, and...