TAILIEUCHUNG - New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health

The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides an overview of the history of the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict and sketches the spatial and temporal event data for the most recent war. Section 3 describes the survey data used in the analysis and explains the key variables. Section 4 describes the empirical identification strategy and Section 5 presents the main results as well as robustness tests. Section 6 concludes. | New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health Shirley H. Liu Department of Economics University of Miami Coral Gables FL 33124-6550 Frank Heiland Department of Economics and Center of Demography and Population Health Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306-2180 October 22 2007 Abstract This study examines the causal link between parental non-marital relationship dissolution and the health status of young children. Using a representative sample of children all born out of wedlock drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study we investigate whether separation between unmarried biological parents has a causal effect on a child s likelihood of developing asthma. Adopting a potential outcome framework to account for selection of relationship dissolution we find that children whose parents separate within three years after childbirth are seven percent more likely to develop asthma by age three compared to if their parents had remained romantically involved. We provide evidence that socioeconomically disadvantaged fathers are more likely to see the relationship with their child s mother end and selection into relationship dissolution along these dimensions helps explain the poorer health outcomes found among out-of-wedlock children whose parents separate. Keywords Child Asthma Fragile Families Relationship Dissolution Propensity Score Matching Corresponding author. Tel. 305 284-4738 Fax 305 284-6550 E-mail addresses S. Liu fheiland@ F. Heiland . Shirley H. Liu acknowledges financial support for this research provided through the James W. McLamore Summer Awards in Business and the Social Sciences from the University of Miami. The authors claim responsibility for errors and opinions. 1 1 Introduction While marriage remains the most common foundation of family life in the . the prominence of the traditional process of family formation namely marriage before having children is diminishing. Today more than .

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