Family Health, Children's Own Health, and Test Score Gaps

Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

“…The existing literature that studies the effect of parental health on children focuses mostly on how childrens' health and educational outcomes are affected (see, for example, Currie and Moretti, 2007;Bhalotra and Rawlings, 2011;Kristiansen, 2020). Some research has shown associations between parental health and child educational outcomes in the US (Andrews and Logan, 2010, using the ECLS-K; or Johnson and Reynolds, 2013 using the NLSY), while many papers use data from developing countries (such as Senne, 2014;Dhanaraj, 2016;Alam, 2015) or transition countries (Bratti and Mendola, 2014).…”

Examining the relationship between childhood health conditions and health service utilisation at school entry and subsequent academic performance in a large cohort of Australian children

“…1,3 Further, family circumstances and parental socio-economic status has been consistently identified as a strong and important predictor of health status and academic performance at all ages. [8][9][10][11] To promote the health and well-being of children, contemporary evidence of the size of the problem is critical. There is some evidence from a cross-sectional study conducted in Victoria, Australia, in 2006 that almost half (48.5%) of the children surveyed had a health condition.…”

“…More specifically, children with asthma, diabetes, developmental delay, intellectual disability and low birth weight (LBW) have been found to perform worse academically than those without . Further, family circumstances and parental socio‐economic status has been consistently identified as a strong and important predictor of health status and academic performance at all ages …”

The Dynamics of African-American Health: A Historical Perspective

“…For example, if a significant portion of black-white convergence in mortality was due to better socioeconomic conditions of parents then the effects of public policies such as antidiscrimination laws has been underestimated. Similarly, as the returns to education increased over the twentieth century the intergenerational transmission could be stronger if healthier parents raise healthier children who are better able to sufficiently invest in their education (Goldin and Katz 2008;Andrews and Logan 2010). On the other hand, the story of the twentieth century in general was one of declining mortality and the arguable conquest of infectious disease in the United States, we may expect the effects of early life circumstances to decline over time (Fogel 1994).…”