Parental unemployment and child health

Eva Mörk (), Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

No 2014:2, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: 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 parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other children, but that most of the difference is driven by selection. A child fixed-effects approach suggests a small effect of parental unemployment on child health.

Keywords: Parental unemployment; child Health; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2014-03-03
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