Parental health and child behavior: evidence from parental health shocks

This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental hea...

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Volume:	14
Main Author:	Mühlenweg, Andrea M Westermaier, Franz G Morefield, Brant
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	New York Springer US 01.09.2016 SPRINGER Springer
published in:	Review of economics of the household Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 577 - 598
Data of publication:	20160900
ISSN:	1569-5239 1573-7152
EISSN:	1573-7152
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Economics Non-cognitive skills Population Economics Human capital Health Microeconomics I00 Social Sciences, general I10 J24 Labor Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Parenting Child development Health aspects Parents Germany Non-cognitive skills FAMILY INCOME Human capital Health RETIREMENT MATERNAL DEPRESSION RISK BIRTH EMPLOYMENT STRENGTHS DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2016 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS