Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

IF 5.3 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Resources Pub Date : 2023-01-09 DOI:10.3368/jhr.0820-11091r2

Esteban García-Miralles, Miriam Gensowski

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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.

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父母的健康冲击会影响孩子的社会情感技能吗?

孩子的技能是由父母的投资塑造的。对父母的健康冲击可能会影响这些投资及其子女的技能。本文估计了严重的父母健康冲击对儿童社会情感技能的因果影响。根据一项与医院记录相关的大规模调查，我们发现11-16岁儿童的社会情感技能在这些冲击中表现强劲，除了责任心有小幅下降。我们用儿童固定效应来估计短期效应，用事件研究来估计冲击周围的动态。从长期来看，我们发现一些证据表明，冲击对儿童技能的影响可能会延迟，这可能是合理的。

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7.00

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1.90%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Human Resources is among the leading journals in empirical microeconomics. Intended for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, each issue examines research in a variety of fields including labor economics, development economics, health economics, and the economics of education, discrimination, and retirement. Founded in 1965, the Journal of Human Resources features articles that make scientific contributions in research relevant to public policy practitioners.