Metadata record for Replication data for: Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation
113015
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
V1
Replication data for: Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation
113015
http://doi.org/10.3886/E113015V1
Petra Persson
Maya Rossin-Slater
Please see full citation.
This work is licensed under an Other license created by the data depositor. Please refer to the LICENSE file, which should be located alongside the project data and documentation.
Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Persson, Petra, and Rossin-Slater, Maya. Replication data for: Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113015V1
I12 Health Behavior
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find that prenatal exposure to the death of a maternal relative increases take-up of ADHD medications during childhood and anti-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Further, family ruptures during pregnancy depress birth outcomes and raise the risk of perinatal complications necessitating hospitalization. Our results suggest large welfare gains from preventing fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further suggest that greater stress exposure among the poor may partially explain the intergenerational persistence of poverty.