Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children
This paper examines the effects of parental health on cognitive and non-cognitive development in Australian children. The underlying nationally representative panel data and a child fixed effects estimator are used to deal with unobserved heterogeneity. We find that only father’s serious mental illn...
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| description | This paper examines the effects of parental health on cognitive and non-cognitive development in Australian children. The underlying nationally representative panel data and a child fixed effects estimator are used to deal with unobserved heterogeneity. We find that only father’s serious mental illness worsens selected cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children. Maternal poor health also deteriorates some cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of children of lone mothers only. Our results demonstrate that either failing to account for parent-child fixed effects or using child non-cognitive skills reported by parents could over-estimate the harmful impact of poor parental health on child development. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-512802018-02-28T05:40:28Z Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children Le, H. Nguyen, Ha This paper examines the effects of parental health on cognitive and non-cognitive development in Australian children. The underlying nationally representative panel data and a child fixed effects estimator are used to deal with unobserved heterogeneity. We find that only father’s serious mental illness worsens selected cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children. Maternal poor health also deteriorates some cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of children of lone mothers only. Our results demonstrate that either failing to account for parent-child fixed effects or using child non-cognitive skills reported by parents could over-estimate the harmful impact of poor parental health on child development. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51280 10.1002/hec.3501 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Le, H. Nguyen, Ha Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title | Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title_full | Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title_fullStr | Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title_short | Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children |
| title_sort | parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: new evidence from the longitudinal survey of australian children |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51280 |