Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305681 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17239
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental distress and non-cognitive skills development of adolescents; both self-reported and more objectively measured bio-measures are used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the non-cognitive skills development of adolescents living in the same household. However, considerable heterogeneity in these associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the link between parental health/disability and adolescents' mental distress. Our findings suggest that each parent's health and disability status may be differentially associated with adolescents' non-cognitive skills development.
Subjects: 
adolescents
biomarkers
mental distress
non-cognitive skills
parental health
JEL: 
I10
J24
C21
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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