We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal … effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been …

of a child with a random and serious health problem (versus the birth of a healthy infant) on the likelihood that the … child's father becomes or remains involved in illegal activities. Controlling for the father's pre-birth criminal activity …, we find that the shock of having a child with a serious health problem increases both the father's post-birth conviction …

We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of both cash assistance and in-kind … effects, and test for the potential endogeneity of child health. Mothers with children in poor health are 5 percentage points …

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 …

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 …