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Title: The Impact of Child Support on Child Health
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Baughman, Reagan A. |
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The Impact of Child Support on Child Health Review of Economics of the Household 15,1 (March 2017): 69-91. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-014-9268-3 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Child Support; Children, Illness; Fathers, Presence; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Insurance, Health; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The broad goals of child support policy are to keep children in single-parent families out of poverty and to make sure that their material needs are met. One potentially important, but relatively understudied, set of measures of child well-being are health outcomes. A fixed-effects analysis of data from the Child and Young Adult file of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that, conditional upon receipt of some amount of child support, higher payment levels are associated with significantly greater odds of having private health insurance coverage and significantly lower odds of poor or declining health status. These effects persist even after controlling for other factors that are likely to be correlated with child support payments, including total family income and paternal visitation patterns. |
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Baughman, Reagan A. "The Impact of Child Support on Child Health." Review of Economics of the Household 15,1 (March 2017): 69-91.
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