TY  - JOUR
AU  - Reichman,Nancy E.
AU  - Corman,Hope
AU  - Noonan,Kelly
TI  - Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10762
PY  - 2004
Y2  - September 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10762
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10762.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nancy Reichman
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey
97 Paterson St., Room 435
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
E-Mail: reichmne@umdnj.edu

Hope Corman
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Tel: 609/895-5559
Fax: 609/896-5387
E-Mail: corman@rider.edu

Kelly Noonan
Department of Economics
Rider University
2083 Lawrence Road, Room SWG 306
Lawrenceville, NJ  08648
Tel: 609/895-5539
E-Mail: knoonan@rider.edu
AB  - 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 (20%) more likely to rely on TANF and 16 percentage points more likely to rely on cash assistance (TANF and/or SSI) than those with healthy children. They are also more likely than those with healthy children to receive Medicaid and housing assistance, but not WIC or food stamps.
ER  -