We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via pre-birth factors, while the results for the hospitalization measures suggest that at least three quarters of the intergenerational persistence in health is attributable to the biological parents.

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健康和长寿的代际持久性的出生前和出生后组成部分

我们使用大量瑞典出生的被收养者及其亲生父母和收养父母的数据，将几代人之间持续存在的健康不平等分解为出生前和出生后的组成部分。我们使用三组衡量第二代健康结果的指标：死亡率、基于住院数据的指标，以及最后使用第三代出生结果的指标。结果表明，死亡率的所有持续性仅通过出生前因素传播，而住院措施的结果表明，至少四分之三的代际健康持续性可归因于亲生父母。