Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
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Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks? / García Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam.
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T1 - Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
AU - García Miralles, Esteban
AU - Gensowski, Miriam
PY - 2020/8/6
Y1 - 2020/8/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Big Five personality traits
KW - development of personality traits
KW - parental health shocks
KW - socio-emotional skills
KW - non-cognitive skills
KW - skill formation
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3647155
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3647155
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CEBI Working Paper Series
BT - Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
ER -
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