consequences on mental health in adulthood, as captured by 11 and 9 percent increases in the consumption of prescription drugs …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose … (IGT) of health and the impact of previous generations' health shocks on socioeconomic outcomes. Our results provide strong … evidence in favour of IGT of health, in particular for males. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on early life …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose … (IGT) of health and the impact of previous generations’ health shocks on socioeconomic outcomes. Our results provide strong … evidence in favour of IGT of health, in particular for males. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on early life …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal … endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational …

the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases …, they translate to a 24% reduction in the SES-mortality gradient. SES concordance changes the health behavior of the patient …

Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … dimensions like the timing of health shocks and pathways through which they affect human capital investment, differential effects …

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating … capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …