Johnston David W, Schurer Stefanie, Shields Michael A
Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Australia.
J Health Econ. 2013 Dec;32(6):1077-89. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.09.001. Epub 2013 Sep 13.
This paper uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to quantify the intergenerational persistence of mental health, and the long-run economic costs associated with poor parental mental health. We find a strong and significant intergenerational correlation that is robust to different covariate sets, sample restrictions, model specifications and potential endogeneity. Importantly, the intergenerational persistence is economically relevant, with maternal mental health associated with lasting effects on the child's educational attainment, future household income and the probability of having criminal convictions. These results do not disappear after controlling for children's own childhood and adulthood mental health.
本文使用1970年英国队列研究的数据来量化心理健康的代际持续性，以及与父母心理健康不佳相关的长期经济成本。我们发现了一种强烈且显著的代际相关性，这种相关性在不同的协变量集、样本限制、模型规格和潜在内生性情况下都很稳健。重要的是，这种代际持续性具有经济相关性，母亲的心理健康会对孩子的教育程度、未来家庭收入以及有刑事定罪的概率产生持久影响。在控制了孩子自身童年和成年后的心理健康之后，这些结果并没有消失。
