Understanding the Relationship Between Decreases in Social Security Benefits and Intergenerational Inequalities in Mental Health.

ABSTRACT: It is well-established that mental health follows similar patterns across generations. However, little is known how structural factors, such as those related to social security reforms, may impact this relationship. Our aim was to quantify the strength of association in mental health between parents and their adolescent children, and to explore how much of this correlation is explained by decreases in benefits. We used data from U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2019) from which we matched youth data to their parents, and split the sample into single- and dual-parent households. To estimate the intergenerational correlations, we estimated a series of unit- and rank-based regression models of standardized and time-averaged mental health measures for adolescents and their parents. Our

SUBMITTER: Simpson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10631259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature