TY  - JOUR
AU  - Reichman,Nancy E.
AU  - Corman,Hope
AU  - Noonan,Kelly
TI  - Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9610
PY  - 2003
Y2  - April 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9610
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9610.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nancy Reichman
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department of Pediatrics
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
89 French St., Room 1348
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
E-Mail: Nancy.reichman@umdnj.edu

Hope Corman
Department of Economics
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 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.
ER  -