Reading path

Outcomes that do not follow the gradient

5 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

1
Gender gaps in reading and math
Chapter 2.2 in Part II, School
Girls scored higher than boys in reading in 99.9% of school districts, while the math gap, male minus female, rose from −0.20 grade levels in the lowest-income tenth of districts to +0.08 in the highest.
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Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 5.1 in Part V, Health and the body
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the share of adults who saw a dentist in the past year was 24.4 points lower than in the least deprived tenth, and the share who had a routine checkup was 3.6 points higher.
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Air pollution
Chapter 5.3 in Part V, Health and the body
The national traffic-pollution percentile of a census tract has a correlation of −0.41 with the Area Deprivation Index across tracts but +0.19 within counties, and the NO₂ percentile rises with the Hispanic share of residents from 33 in the lowest decile to 73 in the highest.
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Overdose, alcohol and suicide
Chapter 6.3 in Part VI, Early death
Across counties, suicide death rates are only weakly related to overdose and homicide rates (population-weighted correlations of +0.13 and −0.02), and among the larger counties where CDC WONDER publishes every year, overdose exceeds alcohol-induced deaths in 479 of 545 and the population-weighted correlation of county deprivation is +0.42 with suicide but +0.13 with alcohol-induced death rates.
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Civic life, loneliness and partnership
Chapter 7.1 in Part VII, Connection and well-being
Voter turnout and census self-response fall across deciles of county deprivation, from 72.1% to 56.4% and from 68.6% to 47.6%, and Gallup respondents who are partnered rate their lives 0.50 ladder points higher than others, in counties with low and high social capital alike.
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