Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265915 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9880
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. 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 these shocks, except for small reductions in Conscientiousness. We estimate short-run effects with child-fixed effects and dynamics around shocks with event studies. In the long-run, we find some evidence of build-up of effects that may be rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills.
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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