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For Poorest Students, a College Degree Makes Health Worse

A new UNC study may help debunk the traditional rags to riches narrative surrounding upward mobility and its relationship to higher education.

Published in fall 2017, the study, titled “College completion predicts lower depression but higher metabolic syndrome among disadvantaged minorities in young adulthood,” was authored by a team led by UNC sociology professor Kathleen Mullan Harris and UNC researcher Lauren Gaydosh.

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