PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Bütikofer, Aline AU - Ginja, Rita AU - Karbownik, Krzysztof AU - Landaud, Fanny TI - (Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health AID - 10.3368/jhr.1222-12711R2 DP - 2024 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - S108--S151 VI - 59 IP - S 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/S/S108.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/S/S108.full AB - 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.