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Title: Will You Marry Me ... if Our Children Are Healthy? The Impact of Maternal Age and the Associated Risk of Having a Child with Health Problems on Family Structure

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data regularities align with a significant increase in the risk of having a child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model that provides a common underlying explanation for the data patterns and generates additional testable implications. I estimate the model predictions using ACS data.

Url: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/197288

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Authors: Gutierrez, Federico H.

Series Title: GLO Discussion Paper

Publication Number: 354

Institution: Global Labor Organization (GLO)

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Publisher Location: Nashville, TN

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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