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 … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …

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

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

Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …

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 …

health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … therapy and take anti-depressant medication following the shock. These children have lower test scores and school enrollment … shock; children from low-income families are more likely to be prescribed anti-depressants following the shock, while …

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