Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?
利用大规模调查与医院记录数据，研究父母严重健康冲击对11-16岁儿童社会情感技能的因果影响，发现除责任心略有下降外，其他技能基本不受影响。
<h3>Abstract</h3> 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.