Child skills are shaped by parental investments. When parents experience a health shock, their investments and … therefore their children's skills may be affected. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child … 11-16 year-olds are robust to parental health shocks, with the exception of significant but very small reductions in …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the … precise timing of hospitalizations and surgeries, our health shock measures. We use difference-in-difference and event … shocks are more mixed, and we find no effects on parents of children with health shocks. Lastly, we show that improvements in …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …

health shock. This gradient is partly driven by differential impacts on health and human capital across the socioeconomic …We examine the role of health shocks in childhood and parental background in transmitting intergenerational inequality …. We use Danish administrative registry data (a setting with universal access to health care) and the quasi-random onset of …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …