In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … 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 these …

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 …