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dc.contributor.authorConeus, Katjaen
dc.contributor.authorSpieß, Christa Katharinaen
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-12T07:19:10Z-
dc.date.available2009-08-12T07:19:10Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/27551-
dc.description.abstractThe prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the intergenerational link and transmission of both maternal and paternal health on children's health in Germany. We investigate this issue using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), making particular use of the mother and child questionnaires. These data allow us to capture a broad set of health measures: anthropometric, self-rated health and "more objective" health measures. The results indicate significant relationships between parental and child health in the first and third year of life. In order to take into account the endogeneity of parental health, we estimate fixed effect models. Overall, we find, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with significantly poorer health. For example, the father's body mass index (BMI) is a predictor for their children's BMI. Mothers who consider their health as good, have also healthier children.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aZentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) |cMannheimen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aZEW Discussion Papers |x08-073en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.jelI1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordIntergenerational transmissionen
dc.subject.keywordchild healthen
dc.subject.keywordparental healthen
dc.subject.keywordearly childhooden
dc.subject.stwKinderen
dc.subject.stwGesundheitsrisikoen
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwFamiliensoziologieen
dc.subject.stwGenerationenbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleThe Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn577908928en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:zewdip:7416en

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