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- Title
The impact of child support on child health.
- Authors
Baughman, Reagan
- Abstract
The broad goals of child support policy are to keep children in single-parent families out of poverty and to make sure that their material needs are met. One potentially important, but relatively understudied, set of measures of child well-being are health outcomes. A fixed-effects analysis of data from the Child and Young Adult file of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that, conditional upon receipt of some amount of child support, higher payment levels are associated with significantly greater odds of having private health insurance coverage and significantly lower odds of poor or declining health status. These effects persist even after controlling for other factors that are likely to be correlated with child support payments, including total family income and paternal visitation patterns.
- Subjects
CHILD support; CHILDREN'S health; SINGLE-parent families; POVERTY; NATIONAL Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Experience (U.S.); GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1569-5239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11150-014-9268-3