We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …