Effects of Child Health on Family Resources

PIs: Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, and Kelly Noonan

Collaborator: Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Funder: NICHD

This project used augmented data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mostly unwed parents to estimate the effects of poor infant health on parental relationships, household composition, parents' labor supply, illegal work, receipt of public assistance, use of pediatric health care, parents' social interactions, housing stability and conditions, and material hardship.