Parental health and child behavior: evidence from parental health shocks
| Autor: | Brant Morefield, Andrea M. Mühlenweg, Franz Westermaier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
medicine.medical_specialty Parental health 030503 health policy & services 05 social sciences Human capital Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0502 economics and business medicine Maternal health Early childhood 050207 economics 0305 other medical science Psychiatry Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Review of Economics of the Household. 14:577-598 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7152 1569-5239 |
| Popis: | This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental health (shocks) and control for a variety of initial characteristics of the child including prenatal conditions. The results are robust to placebo regressions of health shocks that occur after the outcomes are measured. Our findings point to negative effects of maternal health shocks on children’s emotional symptoms, conduct problems and hyperactivity. We estimate that maternal health shocks worsen outcomes by as much as 0.9 standard deviations. In contrast, paternal health seems to be less relevant to children’s behavioral skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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