title: Parental health and child schooling.
abstract: This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children's education using detailed longitudinal data from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our study controls for individual unobserved heterogeneity by using child fixed effects, and it accounts for potential misreporting of self-reported health by employing several, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are significantly less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. Moreover, there is some evidence that mother's negative health shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures.
authors.affiliation: DEMM, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, Italy; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 53113 Bonn, Germany; Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA), 20122 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: massimiliano.bratti@unimi.it.
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bratti
authors.affiliation: DEMS, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milan, Italy; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 53113 Bonn, Germany; Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA), 20122 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: mariapia.mendola@unimib.it.
authors.forename: Mariapia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mendola
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015982:Bias; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D004522:Educational Status; D005220:Fathers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008429:Maternal Welfare / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017059:Models, Econometric; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012574:Schools / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014857:Warfare; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Children; Education; Health shocks; I14; I21; O15; Parents