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(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health / Aline Bütikofer, Rita Ginja, Krzysztof Karbownik, Fanny Landaud.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bütikofer, Aline.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31446.
- NBER working paper series no. w31446
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health diagnosis is associated with a 9.3 percentage point (40%) higher probability of a mental health diagnosis of their adolescent child. Intensive margin physical and mental health associations are similar, and dynastic estimates account for about 40% of the intergenerational persistence. We also show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health conditions reduced the parent-child mental health association by about 40%.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2023.
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