Frimmel, Wolfgang; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2011
lower as compared to that of newborn babies of single mothers. The family status effects in the 2000s are stronger as they …) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children's health outcomes disappears if we … confine our sample to mothers, who are below the age of 22 years. We conclude that social and financial stress may have an …