Intergenerational Health Mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place

The authors would like to acknowledge Postdoctoral Trainee funding (K. Jajtner) under NIA grant T32 AG00129 and support from the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under NIA core grant P30 AG17266. Bhashkar Mazumder and participants at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Health Economics working group and Demography Seminar provided helpful suggestions for improvement. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.