Intergenerational correlations of health among older adults: Empirical evidence from Indonesia

Kim, Younoh; Sikoki, Bondan; Strauss, John; Witoelar, Firman

doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2014.08.004

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“…Thompson (2014) reports smaller health correlation for adopted children than biological children, suggesting that genetic transmission plays an important role in explaining the intergenerational transmission in health. Some studies also report stronger transmission in lower income/less developed areas (Bhalotra and Rawlings, 2013;Kim et al, 2014).…”

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“…For example, Venkataramani (2011) investigates the correlations of height between Vietnamese parents and their children whose ages are under 6 years old and Rawlings (2011, 2013) use microdata from 38 developing countries to document the correlations between maternal height and infant survival probability. More recently, Kim et al (2014) document associations in health (as measured by general health status 2 or physical difficulties) between Indonesian parents and their older adult children.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, while the study by Darden and Gilleskie (2015) documents stronger health transmission for daughters than sons some studies do not find any difference in transmission strength by gender of children (Coneus and Spiess, 2012;Thompson, 2014). Studies into both paternal and maternal health have returned mixed results with some finding intergenerational correlation is greater for maternal health than paternal health (Coneus and Spiess, 2012;Thompson, 2014) while another finds little difference based on the gender of the parent (Kim et al, 2014). On the combination of parental and child gender, the study by Classen (2010) is the only one that reports a stronger transmission between mothers-daughters or fathers-sons.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Maternal Mental Health Shocks on Child Health: Estimates from Fixed-Effects Instrumental Variables Models for Two Cohorts of Australian Children

Nguyen

2018

American Journal of Health Economics

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This paper contributes to an emerging body of literature on intergenerational transmission in health by presenting the first causal estimates on the impact of maternal mental health shocks on child health. The potential endogeneity of maternal mental health shocks is dealt with by utilising nationally representative panel data from two cohorts and individual fixed effects instrumental variables models. While previous literature has found evidence supporting detrimental effects of poor maternal mental health on child health our results found little evidence to support this. Our results hold irrespective of whether we look at the contemporaneous or intertemporal effects. We also found little differential impact based on the gender or age of the child and the levels of maternal education or household income.These results demonstrate that failing to account for endogeneity of maternal mental health shocks could over-estimate the harmful impact of poor maternal mental health on child health. Our findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity and specification tests.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Impact of Maternal Mental Health Shocks on Child Health: Estimates from Fixed-Effects Instrumental Variables Models for Two Cohorts of Australian Children

Nguyen

2018

American Journal of Health Economics

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“…Two studies have focused solely on intergenerational physical health mobility. Kim et al [16] use data from Indonesia finding that if one's father is in poor health this increases the likelihood that his daughter will be in poor health by 29%. Pascual and Cantarero [17] use data on Spain from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP).…”

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Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: Evidence from the UK from 1991–2017

Brown

2020

PLoS ONE

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Social mobility is high on the policy agenda and is an important component of reducing inequalities. Estimating the relationship across generations of multiple dimensions of mobility such as health and wages can be used to understand the current state of mobility. However, there has been little research on how policy impacts on the relationship of multiple outcomes across generations and how that may be contributing to health inequalities and long-term mobility. In this paper, we use the UK as a case study to evaluate the impact of three distinct policy periods: 1991-1998 (Increasing neo-liberalism); 1998-2009 (English Health Inequalities Strategy); 2010-2017 (Austerity) on the relationship across generations in health (self-assessed health (SAH) and mental health measured by General Health Questionnaire 12 (GHQ-12)) and hourly wages. We employ fixed effects models on data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) and its successor the Understanding Society Survey (2009-2017). To investigate the role of policy on inequalities, subgroup analysis is performed by parental socioeconomic status measured by parental educational attainment, parental occupation, and if a single parent household. Results show that for the population on average, a changing policy focus has no impact on the strength of the relationship across generations in both health and wages. However, when looking at subgroups the strength of the relationship in SAH and wages is increasing for parents with basic and higher qualifications and their young adult children. Whereas the influence of parents on their young adult children's SAH, mental health, and wages has remained fairly constant over the period 1991-2017 for parents with manual occupations and professional occupations. There has been a slight weakening in the influence of parents on their young adult children's SAH and wages for single parent families from 2010.

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“…15 Parental characteristics are also strongly associated with the first-differenced lagged health measures. Kim et al (2014) show that having a mother with poor health status is correlated with changes in the number of ADL problems for elderly men. For women, having a dead mother is positively correlated with moving from no hypertension to having hypertension.…”

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confidence: 94%

Intergenerational correlations of health among older adults: Empirical evidence from Indonesia

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

The Impact of Maternal Mental Health Shocks on Child Health: Estimates from Fixed-Effects Instrumental Variables Models for Two Cohorts of Australian Children

The Impact of Maternal Mental Health Shocks on Child Health: Estimates from Fixed-Effects Instrumental Variables Models for Two Cohorts of Australian Children

Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: Evidence from the UK from 1991–2017

The dynamics of health and its determinants among the elderly in developing countries

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