PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Esteban García-Miralles AU - Miriam Gensowski TI - Are Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks? AID - 10.3368/jhr.0820-11091R2 DP - 2023 Jan 09 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 0820-11091R2 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/01/05/jhr.0820-11091R2.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2023/01/05/jhr.0820-11091R2.full AB - 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.