The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families

Hope Corman, Anne Carroll, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

No 12197, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

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Date: 2006-05
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Published as Carroll, A., Corman, H., Noonan, K., Reichman, N. 2007. Why Do Poor Children Lose Health Insurance in the SCHIP Era? The Role of Family Health. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 97(2): 398–401.
Published as Noonan, K., Carroll, A., Reichman, N., Corman, H. 2010. Mental Illness as a Risk Factor for Uninsurance Among Mothers of Infants. Maternal and Child Health Journal 14(1): 36–46.
Published as Corman, H., Noonan, K., Carroll, A., Reichman, N. 2009. Low-Income Fathers’ Access to Health Insurance. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 20(1): 152–164.

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