Parental health and children's cognitive and noncognitive development: New evidence from the longitudinal survey of Australian children
Parental health and children's cognitive and noncognitive development: New evidence from the longitudinal survey of Australian children
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.3501
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Ha Trong Nguyen
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作者：
Huong Thu Le;Ha Trong Nguyen
本文探讨了父母健康对澳大利亚儿童认知和非认知发展的影响。基本的全国代表性面板数据和儿童固定效应估计被用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，儿童的选择性认知和非认知技能。产妇健康状况不佳也恶化了一些认知和非认知的结果，只有单亲母亲的孩子。我们的研究结果表明，无论是没有考虑到亲子固定效应或使用儿童的非认知技能报告的父母可能高估了不良的父母健康对儿童发展的有害影响。
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.