%0 Report
        %A Bütikofer, Aline
%A Ginja, Rita
%A Karbownik, Krzysztof
%A Landaud, Fanny
        %T (Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16280
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16280
        %X 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%.
        %K intergenerational persistence
%K mental health
%K dynastic effects
%K public policy