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.
- 1Gender gaps in reading and math
Chapter 3.2 in Part III, School
Girls outscored boys in reading in 99.9% of school districts over 2009 to 2019, and the math gap, boys minus girls, rose from −0.20 grade levels in the lowest-income tenth of districts to +0.08 in the highest.
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- 2Health behaviors and the supply of care
Chapter 7.1 in Part VII, Health and care
In the most deprived tenth of census tracts, the modeled 2022 share of adults with a past-year dental visit was 24.4 points below the least deprived tenth, and the routine-checkup share 3.6 points above.
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- 3Air pollution
Chapter 6.1 in Part VI, Environment, connection and well-being
The national traffic-pollution percentile of census tracts, modeled for 2020, has a correlation of −0.41 with the Area Deprivation Index across tracts but +0.19 within counties.
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- 4Overdose, alcohol and suicide
Chapter 8.2 in Part VIII, Early death
Across counties with a stable modeled rate for suicide, overdose and homicide in 2019 to 2023, suicide death rates are only weakly related to overdose and homicide rates (population-weighted correlations of +0.13 and −0.02).
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- 5Civic life, loneliness and partnership
Chapter 6.2 in Part VI, Environment, connection and well-being
Voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election was 72.1% of adult citizens in the least deprived tenth of counties and 56.4% in the most deprived, and census self-response was 21.0 points lower across the same tenths.
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