BACKGROUND It is of significance to look into the intergenerational transmission of risk behaviour to explain the disparity of health. Our paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence in the context of China, focusing on smoking behaviour. METHODS This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of smoking in the context of China using a nationally representative dataset - t...

This paper employs mobility matrices, univariate regressions and multivariate econometric techniques based on the recently published Brazilian National Household Sampling Survey to investigate relevance of gendered patterns in intergenerational transmission educational attainment. The empirical evidence from these three different approaches is absolutely unanimous: In Brazil there a significant...