Nationwide evidence that education disrupts the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.

ABSTRACT: Despite overall improvements in health and living standards in the Western world, health and social disadvantages persist across generations. Using nationwide administrative databases linked for 2.1 million Danish citizens, we leveraged a three-generation approach to test whether multiple, different health and social disadvantages-poor physical health, poor mental health, social welfare dependency, criminal offending, and Child Protective Services involvement-were transmitted within families and whether education disrupted these statistical associations. Health and social disadvantages concentrated, aggregated, and accumulated within a small, high-need segment of families: Adults who relied disproportionately on multiple, different health and social services tended to have parents who reli

SUBMITTER: Andersen SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346897 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature