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  - 2023 Oct 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1222-12711R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/10/02/jhr.1222-12711R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/10/02/jhr.1222-12711R2.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%) 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% 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%.