Le Huong Thu, Nguyen Ha Trong
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
School of Accounting, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Health Econ. 2017 Dec;26(12):1767-1788. doi: 10.1002/hec.3501. Epub 2017 Feb 23.
This paper examines the effects of parental health on cognitive and noncognitive 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 noncognitive skills of children. Maternal poor health also deteriorates some cognitive and noncognitive outcomes of children of lone mothers only. Our results demonstrate that either failing to account for parent-child fixed effects or using child noncognitive skills reported by parents could overestimate the harmful impact of poor parental health on child development.
本文考察了父母健康状况对澳大利亚儿童认知和非认知发展的影响。利用具有全国代表性的基础面板数据和儿童固定效应估计量来处理未观察到的异质性。我们发现，只有父亲的严重精神疾病会使儿童某些认知和非认知技能变差。母亲健康状况不佳也只会使单亲母亲的孩子的一些认知和非认知结果恶化。我们的结果表明，不考虑亲子固定效应或使用父母报告的儿童非认知技能，可能会高估父母健康状况不佳对儿童发展的有害影响。
