%0 Journal Article %A Evelina Björkegren %A Mikael Lindahl %A Mårten Palme %A Emilia Simeonova %T Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity %B Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees %D 2022 %R 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0318-9421R1 %J Journal of Human Resources %P 112-142 %V 57 %N 1 %X We use 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 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. %U https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/wpjhr/57/1/112.full.pdf