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| Title: | | Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks  |
| Authors: | | Morefield, Brant Mühlenweg, Andrea M. Westermaier, Franz |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 11-049 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting initial endowments observed at birth. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in early childhood have significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to be more extraverted. |
| Subjects: | | Human capital health personality traits non-cognitive skills |
| JEL: | | I00 J24 I10 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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