vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and … long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II … investments in their education are possible effect channels. The intergenerational effects exceed the direct effects on health. …

vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

and the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, cannot explain the … link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The …

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary … insignificant or even reversed. This is consistent with eighth-grade test scores reflecting individual human capital; SG parents …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health … in family income, family stability, fertility and parental health-related behaviours are less relevant empirically. The … intergenerational effects of education on health and health-related behaviours exceed the direct effects. Studies neglecting the …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents. …We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the …