Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization following the death of a parent of a different gender, but there are significant effects for boys losing their fathers … paternal death, whereas anxiety and, to a lesser extent, self-harm are the most common causes five to ten years after paternal …