Intergenerational Health Mobility:  Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place

Fletcher, Jason M.; Jajtner, Katie M

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“…Interestingly, both Halliday et al. (2021) and Fletcher and Jajtner (2019) tentatively find higher mobility levels for those with parents having health insurance 2 . Note also that only two of the above mentioned studies report sibling correlations, thus potentially only analyzing the “tip of the iceberg” with the sole focus on parent–child associations (Björklund & Jäntti, 2012).…”

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“…Other (US) studies that explore intergenerational health mobility, but measure offspring health in childhood are Halliday and Mazumder (2017) and Fletcher and Jajtner (2019). Halliday and Mazumder (2017) find high sibling correlations in the range 0.5–0.6 and Fletcher and Jajtner (2019) obtain national rank–rank slopes around 0.17 with considerable geographic variation. Due to health measurements taking place at very different points in the lifecycle (and, e.g., Fletcher & Jajtner, 2019, only observe 1 year of parental health) it is not obvious whether results are readily comparable to my study.…”

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“…14 14 Fletcher and Jajtner (2019) report lower rank–rank slopes (i.e., higher mobility) for children whose parents have health insurance. Of course, having health insurance is likely not an exogenous variable but at least this finding is suggestive about the role of policies in fostering mobility. …”

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Intergenerational health mobility: Evidence from Danish registers

Andersen

2021

Health Economics

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This paper is one of the first to investigate mobility in overall health using high‐quality administrative data. The attractiveness of this approach lies in objective health measures and large sample sizes allowing twin analyses. I operationalize health mobility by a variety of statistics: rank–rank slopes, intergenerational correlations (IGCs) and sibling and identical twin correlations. I find rank–rank slopes and IGCs in the range 0.11–0.15 and sibling correlations in the range 0.14–0.20. Mobility in health is thus relatively high, both when compared to similar US‐based studies, and when contrasted with outcomes such as educational attainment and income. Comparing sibling and identical twin correlations with parent–child associations confirms earlier findings in the literature on equality of opportunity, namely that sibling correlations capture far more variation than traditional IGCs. I conclude that 14%–38% of the variation in individual health outcomes can be attributed to family background and genes, factors which the individual cannot be held accountable for. This finding suggests that simple parent–child associations may be a poor metric for measuring health mobility.

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Intergenerational health mobility: Evidence from Danish registers

Andersen

2021

Health Economics

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“…Lach et al (2008); Hong and Park (2016); Lindahl et al (2016)), and asthma (Thompson, 2017). Other studies of intergenerational transmission in SRHS include Kim et al (2015), Pascual and Cantarero (2009), Fletcher and Jajtner (2019) and Graeber (2020). Andersen (2019) uses administrative data in Denmark and a principal components model to study intergenerational transmission in health.…”

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom

Bencsik

Halliday

Mazumder

2021

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We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of the SF-12 to create mental and physical health indices and find that mental health is at least as persistent across generations as physical health. Importantly, parents' mental health is much more strongly associated with children's health than parents' physical health indicating that mental health might be a more important transmission channel. Finally, we construct an overall measure of welfare that combines income and health, and estimate a rank-rank association of 0.31. This is considerably lower than a comparable estimate of 0.43 for the US, suggesting greater mobility of overall welfare in the UK than the US.

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Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality

Gandil

2023

J Econ Inequal

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Rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility are generally justified by their invariance to changes in inequality. However, I show that whenever the source of inequality is uncorrelated to parent ranks, such as in the cases of gender and birth order, increasing equality leads to a fall in rank mobility as measured by the rank correlation. I develop a method to ex-post quantify the importance of inequality for mobility measurement using cross-sectional income distributions and show that US income mobility could have fallen by as much as 24 percent since 1970 due to increased gender equality. Without specifying a policy objective of interest, it is therefore unclear which conclusions to draw from differences in rank-correlations across societies or from changes over time.

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Intergenerational Health Mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Intergenerational health mobility: Evidence from Danish registers

Intergenerational health mobility: Evidence from Danish registers

The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom

Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality

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