TY  - JOUR
AU  - Corman,Hope
AU  - Reichman,Nancy E.
AU  - Noonan,Kelly
TI  - Mothers' and Fathers' Labor Supply in Fragile Families: The Role of Child Health
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9918
PY  - 2003
Y2  - August 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9918
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9918.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Hope Corman
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Tel: 609/895-5559
Fax: 609/896-5387
E-Mail: corman@rider.edu

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

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 effect of poor child health on the labor supply of mothers and fathers post welfare reform, using a national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children-a group at high risk of living in poverty. We account for the 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 diminish their parents' capacity to invest in their health.
ER  -