García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … to these shocks, except for small reductions in Conscientiousness. We estimate short-run effects with child-fixed effects …