We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children’s behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub …-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions …. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living …

psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with … dimensions: These children are more persistent and less often hyperactive. The findings are robust if we control for the … comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany’s segregated secondary-school tracks …