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 … caregivers and children) are the main categories that should be evaluated measuring personal burden of preterm birth on families …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were … counterfactuals for treated households with families who experience the same shock a few years later. We find a sharp break in parents …