-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre … duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …

aspects of mother’s time preference are related to her preschool child’s ability to delay gratification. We provide a new …. We apply the procedure to a sample of 213 mother-child pairs and show that especially mother’s beta parameter is related …-Hyperbolic Discounting ; Preschool Children …

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

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