This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … limit children's time spent with relatively high quality mothers, as fathers pursue joint custody in response to the policy. …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … Birth Cohort Study, I find that low birth weight children are at a higher risk of experiencing parental divorce than … children of normal birth weight in the US, but not in the UK. As children with divorced parents are significantly more likely …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

children in Black families did not explain such racial disparities. Conclusions: The economic gain of parental education on … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …