Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these … understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through ….For the case of forced migration, the results show that asylum-seeking children who arrived in Sweden as a consequence of the …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … hospitalization following the death of a parent of a different gender, but there are significant effects for boys losing their fathers …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … hospitalization following the death of a parent of a different gender, but there are significant effects for boys losing their fathers …

hard to identify, the results suggest that life is more formed by individual endowments and considerations for children …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children … we restrict the sample to low-income and low-educated parents. …