We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National …

Background: Family structure is known to influence children's behavioral, educational, and cognitive outcomes, and … recent studies suggest that family structure affects children's access to health care as well. However, no study has … addressed whether family structure is associated with the care children receive for particular conditions or with their physical …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed …-effects to control for unobservable characteristics of the family. The effects of divorce on the income and consumption of … considered. In the long-run (six or more years after the most recent divorce) family income falls by 40 to 45% after divorce, and …

We provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure among low-income women by …, we analyze the effects of 1990s welfare reforms on family structure categories that incorporate the biological status of … the male. Like past work, we find that most policies did not affect family structure. However, we do find that several …

on single parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single parent family poverty declined …