La transmisión de las desigualdades en el estado de salud: Efectos sobre la equidad intergeneracional a partir de la acumulación de capital humano
ISSN: 0210-2633
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: Desigualdad, equidad y eficiencia en salud y en servicios sanitarios
Issue: 75
Pages: 99-114
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos económicos de ICE
Abstract
This paper analyses the role of health status as a transmissible factor across generations of the same family, and its effects on the accumulation of human capital and the efficiency of the educational process. A significant and positive effect of health on human capital formation implies that individual health affects the intergenerational transmission of income, provided that children of poor parents are more likely to get ill and they accumulate a lower level of human capital, perpetuating thus the vicious cycle of deprivation. The analysis relies on a Brazilian household survey, which permits to establish intergenerational relationships for an extended set of variables. Regarding methodology, different models have been estimated according to the distribution function of the variables been considered