Emily Dore
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center
Harvard School of Public Health

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Institute for Social Research, Thompson Street
Room 1450 + Zoom

Lunch will be provided – please RSVP by 11/14/2025

Research has repeatedly shown that individual-level measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES), such as parental income and education, are associated with health in later life. Less explored is the role of state contextual factors in shaping this relationship between childhood SES and adult health. Illuminating structural and political determinants of health along the life span can improve interventions by broadening their reach to the population level, complimenting interventions that concentrate on individual behavioral changes. In this presentation, Dr. Dore will present findings from two projects that explore these questions using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The first investigates how the relationship between childhood SES and health in adulthood varies across states, and which state contexts may be driving observed differences. The second examines a specific policy intervention, welfare reform in the mid-1990s, to understand how exposure to different types of welfare programming in childhood shapes health years later.

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