detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled sibling. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of … children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for … cognitive developmental gaps. The results are strongest when the ill-health in the sibling is of a temporary rather than longer …

: e.g. parental absence due to migration, health problems, and alcohol abuse. These findings call for a greater policy … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on … unemployment on child health. …