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 …

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during … early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and … find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …

sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

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 selfreported 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 shocks in …

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 …

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 selfreported 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 shocks in …