Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills

Franz Westermaier, G. Brant Morefield and Andrea Mühlenweg

No 13-032, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of these maternal health shocks decrease the observed non-cognitive skills up to half a standard deviation. Paternal health does not robustly affect non-cognitive outcomes.

Keywords: Human capital; health; non-cognitive skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 I10 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-cognitive Skills (2013)
Working Paper: Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children’s NonCognitive Skills (2013)
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