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particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … approach. Our results suggest that the income effects observed in the data are spurious. -- child health ; intergenerational …This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are …
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
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We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
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have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …
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progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use …
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Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …
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the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early … stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood …
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We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using … the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …
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this paper, we explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience declines in mental health compared … to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing … loneliness increase among the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. Given the relationship …
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This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects … on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of … children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability of having dissolved their relationship and a 7-13% lower labor …
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