Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
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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 socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we find that socio-emotional skills of 11-16 year-olds are robust to parental health shocks, with the exception of significant but very small reductions in Conscientiousness. We study short-run effects with a child-fixed effects model, and dynamics around the shocks with event studies. A sibling comparison suggests some long-run build-up of effects of early shocks.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 48 |
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Publication status | Published - 6 Aug 2020 |
Series | CEBI Working Paper Series |
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Number | 21/20 |
Links
- https://www.econ.ku.dk/cebi/publikationer/working-papers/CEBI_WP_21-20.REV.pdf
Submitted manuscript
ID: 248805610