Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children’s Non-Cognitive Skills

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six...

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Published in:	MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 12-2013)
Main Authors:	Westermeier, Franz, Morefield, Brant, Mühlenweg, Andreas M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	Human capital non-cognitive skills Wirtschaft health Economics
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