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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016
on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450717
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002423
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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; … - 2019
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027647