TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Vera, Micole De
AU  - Garcia-Brazales, Javier
AU  - Lin, Jiayi
        TI  - The Long Shadow of Labor Market Entry Conditions: Intergenerational Determinants of Mental Health
        PY  - 2025/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18305
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18305
        AB  - What determines long-term mental health and its intergenerational correlation? Exploiting variation in unemployment rates upon labor market entry across Australian states and cohorts, we provide novel evidence that the mental health of daughters is affected by the labor market entry conditions of their parents. In particular, a one standard deviation shock to the unemployment rate upon parental labor market entry worsens daughters' mental health during adolescence by 11% of a standard deviation. This effect is accompanied by lower levels of satisfaction with their health, financial situation, safety, and overall life. A mediation analysis suggests that a sizable proportion (24%) of the impacts on the descendants' mental health is explained by the worse mental health of their parents at mid-life. We do not detect any systematic impact of parental labor market entry conditions among sons.
        KW  - intergenerational correlation
KW  - well-being
KW  - mental health
KW  - recession
KW  - Australia
        ER  -