. We use data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families to analyze the determinants of receipt of a child care …

-parent families. We assessed the effect of number of parents and number of other children in the household on office visits for asthma …'s health status. Results: Asthmatic children in single-mother families had fewer office visits for asthma and filled fewer … prescriptions for controller medications than children with two parents. In addition, children living in families with three or more …

One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic … children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed … children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into single-parent households are both … food consumption is reduced by 17%. Six or more years after the most recent marriage, income of children born to single …

We use data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of poor …

sample of about 9,000 families to test whether having an unhealthy child decreases the mother's chance of being married, and … that children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to … mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family …

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …