In this paper we extensively analyze the impact of child health and other family characteristics on the cognitive … literature. First, we find only a weak relationship between several measures of child health and child cognitive development …

This study uses the 1988 Child Health Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey to examine the performance of … school-aged children who were of low birthweight. We examine a number of indicators of school performance, health, and … normal birthweight peers, and they are more likely to experience health problems, even into their adolescence. We do not find …

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family … structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a … whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures of child health, we find that …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

of a child with a random and serious health problem (versus the birth of a healthy infant) on the likelihood that the …, we find that the shock of having a child with a serious health problem increases both the father's post-birth conviction … and incarceration by 1 to 8 percentage points, depending on the measure of infant health used …

-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 … insurance and those that were covered by private insurance. The child's health status had no effect, for the most part, on …

We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement …-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and characterization of infant health. The TUVs represent wantedness, taste for risky … behavior, and maternal health endowment. The NSCs include father and family structure characteristics. We estimate effects of …

We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of both cash assistance and in …-kind public support in the form of food, health care, and shelter. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed … effects, and test for the potential endogeneity of child health. Mothers with children in poor health are 5 percentage points …

We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of mothers and fathers post welfare reform, using a … potential endogeneity of child health and find that having a young child in poor health reduces the mother's probability of … working, the mother's hours of work, and the father's hours of work. These results suggest that children's health problems may …