TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bütikofer, Aline
AU  - Ginja, Rita
AU  - Karbownik, Krzysztof
AU  - Landaud, Fanny
        TI  - (Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
        PY  - 2023/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16280
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16280
        AB  - 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%.
        KW  - intergenerational persistence
KW  - mental health
KW  - dynastic effects
KW  - public policy
        ER  -