literature search illustrate the large extend of burden of prematurity on parents. This results in substantial out …-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) and emotional distress to the parents besides the medical problems and further financial costs to the health …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents … than for fathers. We also document a substantial impact on parents' mental well-being. Our results suggest that the effect …