We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills.
Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported
parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on
outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that
maternal health shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on
children’s behavioral outcomes. The most serious of these maternal health shocks decrease
the observed non-cognitive skills up to half a standard deviation. Paternal health does not
robustly affect non-cognitive outcomes.
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