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 …

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 …

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 …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a … roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …