particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …

have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …

Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use …

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

this paper, we explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience declines in mental health compared … to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing … loneliness increase among the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. Given the relationship …

This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects … on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of … children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability of having dissolved their relationship and a 7-13% lower labor …