Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CEBI Working Paper Series ; No. 21/20

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Health: General ; Analysis of Education
• Subject: Big Five personality traits ; development of personality traits ; parental health shocks ; socio-emotional skills ; non-cognitive skills ; skill formation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): García-Miralles, Esteban ; Gensowski, Miriam
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
• (where): Copenhagen
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258935
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET