Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48874 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 11-049
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
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

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