ArticleHealth economics2020
The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States: A latent variables analysis.
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- Education disrupts the intergenerational transmission of health disadvantage across three generations in China.PloS one · 2024Article
- Understanding the Relationship Between Decreases in Social Security Benefits and Intergenerational Inequalities in Mental Health.International journal of social determinants of health and health services · 2023Article
- The Long-term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking.American journal of health economics · 2023Article
- Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health.The American economic review · 2023Article
- The intergenerational relationship between conditional cash transfers and newborn health.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Intergenerational health mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place.Health economics · 2021Article
- Intergenerational Mobility in Self-Reported Health Status in the US.Journal of public economics · 2021Article
- Childhood Origins Of Intergenerational Health Mobility In The United States.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are explicitly based on a nonlinear latent variable model. We develop an estimation procedure for a nonlinear model with categorical outcomes in which the latent index is a mixed linear model and contains covariates that might not vary within cross-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health status gets transmitted to their children. Once we add additional mediators to the model, we show that education, and particularly children's education, is an important transmission channel in that it reduces the IHA by one third. Finally, we show that estimates of the IHA from nonlinear models are only moderately higher than those from linear models, whereas rank-based mobility estimates are identical.
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