Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Reply

Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) find that prenatal exposure to family ruptures affects childhood and adult mental health, as well as infant physical health. We compare children whose relatives die within 280 days post-conception to children whose relatives die in the year after birth. Matsumoto cor...

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Published in:The American economic review 2018-04, Vol.108 (4-5), p.1256-1263
Main Authors: Persson, Petra, Rossin-Slater, Maya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Births
Childbirth & labor
Childhood
Children & youth
Death & dying
Economic theory
Health status
Infants
Life course
Mental health
Prenatal care
Prenatal exposure
Relatives
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Summary:Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) find that prenatal exposure to family ruptures affects childhood and adult mental health, as well as infant physical health. We compare children whose relatives die within 280 days post-conception to children whose relatives die in the year after birth. Matsumoto correctly notes that defining the control group using actual birth dates can bias our estimates. Here, we redefine our control group using expected birth dates. The effects on mental health in childhood and adulthood are statistically indistinguishable from those in our original paper. The infant health impacts are attenuated, but statistically significant in our main specifications.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.20161605