Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Sammanfattning
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting
parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and
post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second
generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality
is transmitted solely via pre-birth factors, while the results for the hospitalization measures
suggest that at least three quarters of the intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents.
Övrig beskrivning
JEL: I10; I14
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Datum
2019-06Författare
Björkegren, Evelina
Lindahl, Mikael
Palme, Mårten
Simeonova, Emilia
Nyckelord
Heath inequality
nature and nurture
intergenerational transmission
Publikationstyp
report
ISSN
1403-2465
Serie/rapportnr.
Working Papers in Economics
770
Språk
eng