Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258935 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 21/20
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Big Five personality traits
development of personality traits
parental health shocks
socio-emotional skills
non-cognitive skills
skill formation
JEL: 
J24
I10
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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