THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH ON HEALTH INSURANCE STATUS IN FRAGILE FAMILIES

Hope Corman, Anne Carroll, Kelly Noonan and Nancy Reichman
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Hope Corman: Rider University and National Bureau of Economic Research
Anne Carroll: Rider University
Kelly Noonan: Rider University and National Bureau of Economic Research
Nancy Reichman: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

No 928, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to estimate the effects of poor infant health, pre-pregnancy health conditions of the mother, and the father?s health status on health insurance status of urban, mostly unmarried, mothers and their one-year-old children. Virtually all births were covered by health insurance, but one year later about one third of mothers and over 10 percent of children were uninsured. We separately examine births that were covered by public insurance and those that were covered by private insurance. The child?s health status had no effect, for the most part, on whether the mother or child became uninsured. For publicly insured births, a maternal physical health condition made it less likely that both the mother and child became uninsured, while maternal mental illness made it more likely that both the mother and child lost insurance coverage. For privately insured births, the father?s suboptimal physical health made it more likely that the mother, but not the child, became uninsured.

Date: 2006-04
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