(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health

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We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties 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 dynastic estimates account for about 40% 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 about 40%.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10542

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health and Inequality ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: mental health ; intergenerational persistence ; dynastic effects ; public policy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bütikofer, Aline ; Ginja, Rita ; Karbownik, Krzysztof ; Landaud, Fanny
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/279292
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET