We examine intergenerational transmission of health from mothers to children, using a unique dataset that tracks a cohort of children born in the 1980s in the Philippines. We provide causal estimates of the impact of maternal health on child health, and examine the persistence of this relationship from birth through adolescence. Our results suggest that mother’s health continues to impact child health throughout childhood, even conditional on child birthweight. Previous estimates gauging transmission at birth, or at any single point during childhood, therefore underestimate the full impact of maternal health on child health. The effect of mother’s health on child height-for-age z-score is only partly explained by the persistent effect of birthweight, socioeconomic mechanisms or parental inputs; maternal health may additionally shape childhood growth trajectories until the point of puberty.

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孕产妇健康的代际传递：来自菲律宾宿务的证据

我们使用一个跟踪菲律宾 1980 年代出生的儿童队列的独特数据集，研究了健康从母亲到儿童的代际传递。我们提供了孕产妇健康对儿童健康影响的因果估计，并检验了这种关系从出生到青春期的持续性。我们的研究结果表明，母亲的健康会继续影响整个儿童时期的儿童健康，甚至以儿童出生体重为条件。先前估计在出生时或在儿童时期的任何一个点测量传播，因此低估了孕产妇健康对儿童健康的全面影响。出生体重、社会经济机制或父母投入的持续影响仅部分解释了母亲健康对儿童年龄别身高 z 分数的影响；