Intergenerational health mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place

Jason Fletcher and Katie M. Jajtner

Health Economics, 2021, vol. 30, issue 7, 1648-1667

Abstract: This paper broadens the literature on intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status to consider individual, family, and spatial variation in intergenerational health mobility in the United States. Using a school‐based representative panel (Add Health), we report overall health persistence of 0.17 with higher mobility in Hispanic families. We find large variation by place; intergenerational health persistence estimates range between 0 and 0.5, with similarly large ranges for absolute upward and downward health mobility. School‐ and contextual‐level correlates indicate local race/ethnicity composition, proportion of single parents, and average mother's education may be related to observed variation in intergenerational health mobility.

Date: 2021
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