Parental Unemployment and Child Health

Eva Mörk (), Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

CESifo Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 60, issue 2, 366-401

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% 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. (JEL-codes: I12, J13)

Date: 2014
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