market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the … shocks are more mixed, and we find no effects on parents of children with health shocks. Lastly, we show that improvements in … precise timing of hospitalizations and surgeries, our health shock measures. We use difference-in-difference and event …

consequences on mental health in adulthood, as captured by 11 and 9 percent increases in the consumption of prescription drugs … Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and …" patients often has minimal impacts. This paper shows that reliance on information about relatives' health can perpetuate … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …