Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Antal sider | 48 |
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Status | Udgivet - 6 aug. 2020 |
Navn | CEBI Working Paper Series |
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Nummer | 21/20 |
- Big Five personality traits, development of personality traits, parental health shocks, socio-emotional skills, non-cognitive skills, skill formation
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Links
- https://www.econ.ku.dk/cebi/publikationer/working-papers/CEBI_WP_21-20.REV.pdf
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