| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21745 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21745 |
| Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Child Health | |
| Jessamyn Schaller; Mariana Zerpa | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-11-23 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent research suggests that parental job loss has negative effects on children's outcomes, including their academic achievement and long-run educational and labor market outcomes. In this paper we turn our attention to the effects of parental job loss on children's health. We combine health data from 16 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which allows us to use a fixed effects specification and still have a large sample of parental job displacements. We find that paternal job loss is detrimental to the physical and mental health of children in low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, increasing their incidence of injuries and mental disorders. We separately find that maternal job loss leads to reductions in the incidence of infectious illness among children in high-SES families, possibly resulting from substitution of maternal care for market-based childcare services. Increases in public health insurance coverage compensate for a large share of the loss in private coverage that follows parental displacement, and we find no significant changes in routine or diagnostic medical care. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21745 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579420 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jessamyn Schaller,Mariana Zerpa. Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Child Health. 2015. |
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