Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status

Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman and Kelly Noonan

No 9610, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We use data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of poor child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth and also at how their relationships changed along a continuum (married, cohabiting, romantically involved, friends, or not involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents with low socioeconomic status.

JEL-codes: I12 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-04
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Published as Reichman, Nancy, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan. "Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status." Demography (August 2004): 569-584.

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