Arbeitspapier
Parental unemployment and child health
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:8
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Subject
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parental unemployment
child health
human capital
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mörk, Eva
Sjögren, Anna
Svaleryd, Helena
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
- (where)
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Uppsala
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mörk, Eva
- Sjögren, Anna
- Svaleryd, Helena
- Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
Time of origin
- 2014
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