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

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

Mental health is essential for well-being and quality of life. Yet, our knowledge of the determinants of mental health … is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …

Large-scale immigration waves can have adverse effects on physical and mental health of the natives. We investigate the … impact of the unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees after 2011 on the mental health of native Turks. Our results suggest … that immigration may adversely affects the mental health of natives. The adverse effects, however, are conditioned by the …

-born cohorts. -- famine ; health ; regression discontinuity ; Greece …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from … administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health diagnosis is associated with a 9.3 percentage point …

We study the impacts of a prenatal and infancy home visiting program targeting disadvantaged families on mental health … outcomes, assessed through diagnostic interviews. The program significantly reduced the prevalence of mental health conditions … for both mothers and children, measured at primary-school age, and broke the intergenerational association of these …