The great recession and mothers' health

• Autores: Janet Currie, Valentina Duque, Irwin Garfinkel
• Localización: Economic journal, ISSN 0013-0133, Vol. 125, Nº 588, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study to investigate the impacts of the Great Recession on the health of mothers. We focus on a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes, as well as health behaviour. We find that increases in the unemployment rate decrease self-reported health status and increase smoking and drug use. We also find evidence of heterogeneous impacts. Disadvantaged mothers - African American, Hispanic, less educated and unmarried - experience greater deterioration in their health than advantaged mothers - those who are white, married and college educated