Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia

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“…11 A more exhaustive description of adoptions in Sweden can be found in the Online Appendix of Björkegren et al (2019) posted on the home page of the Journal of Human Resources.…”

Section: Adoption In Sweden 1932-1967 11mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bohman (1970) and Nordlöf (2001), focusing on the development in the Stockholm area, use primary sources. In addition, several empirical studies using data on adoptees, such as Björklund et al (2004), Oskarsson et al (2015) and Björkegren et al (2019) give comprehensive overviews of adoptions in Sweden.…”

Section: Adoption In Sweden 1932-1967 11mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solon, 1999 andDevereux, 2011, for overviews) and, in particular, the quite small literature on intergenerational persistence in health outcomes (see e.g. Andersen, 2019, Björkegren et al, 2019Halliday et al, 2018;Petersen, Kragh Andersen and Sørensen, 2005;and Sørensen et al, 1988). In the literature on intergenerational mobility there is an increasing number of studies using adoptees to distinguish between pre-and post-birth factors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, Akee et al (2013) and Akee et al (2018) find positive effects of exogenously increasing parental income on child BMI and child behavioral and emotional health in the US. whereas for health transmission, pre-birth factors are clearly more important (see Björkegren et al, 2019).…”

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“…11 A more exhaustive description of adoptions in Sweden can be found in the Online Appendix of Björkegren et al (2019) posted on the home page of the Journal of Human Resources.…”

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“…Black and Devereux (2011) and Jäntti and Jenkins (2015) review the literature. There are additional related studies that focus on other dimensions of intergenerational persistence, such as wealth (Charles and Hurst, 2003), consumption expenditures (Charles et al, 2014;Waldkirch et al, 2004), occupations (Bello and Morchio, 2017;Corak and Piraino, 2011), incarceration and criminal behavior (Dobbie et al, 2018;Meghir et al, 2012), health (Bj örkegren et al, 2019;Johnston et al, 2013), and employment and welfare dependency (Li and Goetz, 2019;Lo Bello and Morchio, 2020). differences in income trajectories and timing of educational attainment.…”

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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

Eshaghnia¹,

Heckman²,

Landersø³

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This paper studies intergenerational mobility-the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints. These measures of lifetime resources allow us to estimate the transmission of welfare and lifetime resources at different stages of the life cycle. We compare these measures with traditional ones such as wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The performance of proxy measures is poor. Parents' expected lifetime resources are stronger predictors of many important child outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in the literature on social mobility. Changes in patterns of educational attainment across generations explain most of the intergenerational change in life-cycle dynamics. While relative mobility is overstated by the traditional income measures, absolute upward mobility is understated. Recent generations have higher welfare and are better off compared to their parents.

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Generaciones y curso(s) de vida: una mirada longitudinal a los retos demográficos contemporáneos

Fernández‐Carro

Grande

Gamundi

et al. 2022

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La Demografía es una disciplina esencial y transversal para todas las Ciencias Sociales, que además mantiene un vínculo especialmente estrecho con la Sociología dado el uso compartido de teorías y métodos de análisis. A pesar de su relevancia, aún son relativamente escasas en España las publicaciones que abordan el estudio de los procesos sociales desde un punto de vista específicamente demográfico. Para contribuir a llenar este vacío, el Comité de Investigación de Sociología de la Población y Demografía de la FES coordina este monográfico, cuyo hilo conductor se articula en torno a una de las aportaciones esenciales que la Demografía ha hecho a las Ciencias Sociales: la óptica longitudinal. Como punto de partida, este artículo reflexiona sobre el papel que tiene la Demografía en el estudio de la realidad social, destacando la necesidad de utilizar enfoques longitudinales como la óptica generacional o biográfica para analizar algunos de los principales retos demográficos que afrontan las sociedades contemporáneas: las dinámicas de formación familiar, fecundidad, salud y envejecimiento.

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Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

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Selection and Causation in the Parental Education Gradient in Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Selection and Causation in the Parental Education Gradient in Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

Generaciones y curso(s) de vida: una mirada longitudinal a los retos demográficos contemporáneos

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