Multigenerational inequalities of opportunity in health outcomes.

Namal N Balasooriya, Jayatilleke S Bandara, Nicholas Rohde

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Article in International journal for equity in health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Urban Sprawl, Natural Environments, and Mortality Inequality: Socioeconomic Pathways and Spatial Heterogeneity Across U.S. Counties.Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England) · 2026
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Namal N BalasooriyaCentre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, UQ Health Sciences Building, RBWH Campus Central, Fig Tree Dr, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia. n.balasooriya@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-5044-7386

Jayatilleke S BandaraDepartment of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Nicholas RohdeDepartment of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4606-2624

Funding

Australian Research Council ARC DP 1701 00438

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper studies multigenerational health transmission mechanisms in Australian panel data. Using inequality-of-opportunity (IOP) models, we demonstrate that grandparental socioeconomic status (SES) is an important determinant of personal health, even after controlling for health and SES at the parental level. Our findings hold over a range of health/biomarkers of individuals' physical and mental well-being and appear to be especially sensitive to educational outcomes on the father's side. Since ingrained socioeconomic (dis)advantages that persist over multiple generations may be indicative of social class, our results suggest that subtle attitudinal and behavioural characteristics associated with this variable may be a key factor driving health disparities.

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Health Status DisparitiesSocial ClassAdultAgedAustraliaFemaleGrandparentsHumansIntergenerational RelationsMaleMiddle AgedSocioeconomic FactorsChildren’s healthHealth behavioursHealth outcomesInequality of opportunityMultigenerational inequalitySocial class

Identifiers

PMID38987776

DOI10.1186/s12939-024-02144-0

PMCPMC11234677

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