Since the early 1970's, research has been done on the negative effects of divorce on children’s well-being and the intergenerational transmission of divorce risks in the USA. Especially the public opinion in the United States has been one of enormous concern for the effects on children, since divorce rates have developed strongly, and are still significantly higher than in any other country in ...

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...

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The skills of residents in a local area matter for tax revenue, and increasing evidence suggests that skills also increase local productivity and growth. The determinants of the geographic distribution of skills at a point in time are the previous generation’s distribution of skills, the intergenerational transmission of skill from parents to children, and migration of differently skilled indiv...

Our goal was to analyze the phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of trauma-related feelings and propose a way to alleviate this process through reconciliation of conflicted groups. The genesis of psychotrauma, with respect to the organism's defensive barrier being pierced by too strong external impulses, is discussed in terms of activation of the death instinct or by reactivation of chi...

BACKGROUND Children of depressed mothers not only have higher risk of depression, but also may experience both elevated and continuing exposure to stressful experiences. The study tested hypotheses of the intergenerational transmission of stress and depression and examined the role of early childhood adversity and maternal depression in the interplay between youth depression and stress over 20 ...