Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Reply
成果类型：
Editorial Material
署名作者：
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya
署名单位：
Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0002-8282
DOI：
10.1257/aer.20161605
发表日期：
2018
页码：
1256-1263
关键词：
摘要：
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.