American Economic Review Vol. 108 No. 4-5 2018

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Reply

Petra Persson¹; Maya Rossin-Slater²

¹ Stanford University, 579 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, NBER, and the Research Institute for Industrial Economics (email: ) · ² Stanford University School of Medicine, 150 Governor's Lane, Stanford, CA 94305, NBER, and IZA (email: )

Abstract

Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) find that prenatal exposure to family ruptures affects childhood and adult mental health, as well as infant physical health. We compare children whose relatives die within 280 days post-conception to children whose relatives die in the year after birth. Matsumoto correctly notes that defining the control group using actual birth dates can bias our estimates. Here, we redefine our control group using expected birth dates. The effects on mental health in childhood and adulthood are statistically indistinguishable from those in our original paper. The infant health impacts are attenuated, but statistically significant in our main specifications.

DOI

10.1257/aer.20161605

Volume

108

Issue

4-5

Pages

1256-1263

Language

en

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