MOTHERS' LABOR SUPPLY IN FRAGILE FAMILIES: THE ROLE OF CHILD HEALTH

From: Eastern Economic Journal | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

A growing body of research indicates that low socioeconomic status in early childhood sets the stage for increasing disadvantages in both health and educational capital over the child's life course and can cause low socioeconomic status to persist for generations. case, Lubotsky & Paxson [2002] examined why children from families with low socioeconomic status have poor health and why the health differential between poor and non-poor children gets larger at older ages. They presented a model in which a child's health deteriorates because of a health shock, the negative effects ...

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