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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:8

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
parental unemployment
child health
human capital

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mörk, Eva
Sjögren, Anna
Svaleryd, Helena
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
2014

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mörk, Eva
  • Sjögren, Anna
  • Svaleryd, Helena
  • Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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