. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data, including more than 140,000 children whose parents were displaced … due to workplace closures, and conditioning on a wide set of pretreatment outcomes of both parents and children, we find …We study the effects of parental job loss on children's health, educational achievement and labor market success as …

a health shock. I find that employment and income of adult children are slightly reduced in the years leading up to the … Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers …

health of existing children. We conclude that the effects on health are not severely biased; however, the large negative … birth order effects are due to differential parental investment because parents’ time and resources are limited. …

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …, while their parents were unemployed, were less likely to be prescribed medication for respiratory conditions and allergies …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children's critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …