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(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health

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  • Aline Bütikofer
  • Rita Ginja
  • Krzysztof Karbownik
  • Fanny Landaud

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We estimate health associations across generations 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 percent) higher probability of a mental health diagnosis of their adolescent child. Intensive margin physical and mental health associations are similar, and extended family estimates account for 42 percent 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 39 percent.

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  • Aline Bütikofer & Rita Ginja & Krzysztof Karbownik & Fanny Landaud, 2024. "(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 59(S), pages 108-151.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:59:y:2024:i:s:p:s108-s151
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1222-12711R2
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    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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