The Intergenerational Transmission of Adiposity Across Countries

The Intergenerational Transmission of Adiposity across Countries

There is a worldwide epidemic of obesity. We are only slowly beginning to understand its causes and consequences. This paper addresses one important component of the crisis – namely the extent to which obesity – or more generally adiposity is passed down from one generation to the next. Using the BMI as a measure of adiposity, we find that the intergenerational transmission of adiposity is rela...

Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing ...

A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries

A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries

Policy reform can remove obstacles to intergenerational social mobility and thereby promote equality of opportunities across individuals. Such reform will also enhance economic growth by allocating human resources to their best use. This chapter assesses recent crosscountry patterns in intergenerational social mobility and examines the role that public policies play in affecting mobility. Inter...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.

This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, a...