RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 112
OP 142
DO 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0318-9421R1
VO 57
IS 1
A1 Evelina Björkegren
A1 Mikael Lindahl
A1 Mårten Palme
A1 Emilia Simeonova
YR 2022
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/112.abstract
AB 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.