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September 11, 2025PLoS ONEOpen Access

A life course perspective on predictors of midlife socioeconomic status

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EMErik Lykke MortensenLSLonny StokholmTFTrine Flensborg‐MadsenUniversity of Southern Denmark

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Implication

This analysis identifies key predictors of socioeconomic status (SES) in midlife, emphasizing education and intelligence.

Key Points

  • Midlife socioeconomic status is strongly influenced by educational attainment and intelligence from childhood.
  • The predictive model shows a slight increase in explained variance from 53.5% to 54.1% by adding other factors.
  • Structural equation modeling was utilized to estimate direct and indirect effects of early and late childhood characteristics.
  • Over the life course, direct effects of early life factors decrease, while their influence on SES becomes more indirect.

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Mortensen et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d418d4713b0b5dfea6447fhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330130
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