The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States: A latent variables analysis

January 15, 2020

Social scientists have long documented that many components of social and economic rank such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health levels, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are explicitly based […]

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