pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, 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 …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

, race, education, geography and health insurance coverage in childhood. We find some important differences in the patterns …Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the … previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling correlations in …

We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health …, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to …-rank slope in health between adult children and their parents is 0.22 which is broadly in line with results from other countries …

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and … insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points. We show that the compliers, those induced by the policy to obtain … insurance, are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables …

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …

We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one … percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8-8.8 percent increase in reports of poor health. Mental … health was also adversely impacted and reports of chronic drinking increased. These effects were concentrated among those …

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 …