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  1. Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records
    Author: Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy; Lin, Ming-Jeng; Mazumder, Bhashkar
    Published: October 2023
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    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 a... more

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    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 a set of indicators for 13 broad ICD categories and quintiles of visits to a general practitioner. We find that the rank-rank slope in health between adult children and their parents is 0.22 which is broadly in line with results from other countries. Maternal transmission is stronger than paternal transmission and sons have higher persistence than daughters. Persistence is also higher at the upper tail of the parent health distribution. Persistence is lower when using inpatient data or when using total medical expenses and may overstate mobility. Health transmission is almost entirely unrelated to household income levels in Taiwan. We also find that that there are small geographic differences in health persistence across townships and that these are modestly correlated with area level income and doctor availability. Finally, by looking at persistence within health conditions that vary in their genetic component, we find little evidence that health persistence is driven by genetic factors.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/282670
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 16543
    Subjects: intergenerational mobility; health; administrative data; genetics
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 50 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Understanding sibling correlations in education
    molecular genetics and family background
    Author: Fletcher, Jason; Lu, Qiongshi; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Song, Jie
    Published: January 2023
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Sibling correlations in socioeconomic status are one of the key measures of equality of opportunity and social mobility, providing an omnibus examination of the importance of family background. Typically, these correlations are interpreted as the... more

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    Sibling correlations in socioeconomic status are one of the key measures of equality of opportunity and social mobility, providing an omnibus examination of the importance of family background. Typically, these correlations are interpreted as the combined effects of shared sibling background and experiences, including genetics and family environments. The UK Biobank allows us to specifically control for sibling and parental genetics (polygenic scores, PGS) in order to gauge their relative importance compared with broader family background effects. We use >17,000 sibling pairs from the UK Biobank in order to further decompose standard sibling correlations of educational attainment found in the literature. In general, we find modest (up to 20%) contributions of molecular genetics to the similarity of sibling outcomes, suggesting a large amount of the observed similarity in sibling educational outcomes are due to parents and environments of children.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15862
    Subjects: sibling correlations; educational mobility; genetics
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 19 Seiten)
  3. Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records
    Author: Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy; Lin, Ming-Jeng; Mazumder, Bhashkar
    Published: October 2023
    Publisher:  University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Economics, Honolulu, HI

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    Series: Working paper series / University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Economics ; no. 23, 08
    Subjects: intergenerational mobility; health; administrative data; genetics
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 49 Seiten), Illustrationen