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1.	Feng, Peihong
1.	The Impacts of Children's Disability on Mothers' Labor Supply and Marital Status Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Economics, 2006. DAI-A 67/05, Nov 2006. Also: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=osu1142442563 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Asthma; Child Health; Children, Illness; Disability; Labor Supply; Marital Disruption; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; Parenthood; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Work History Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The first essay explores the differential impacts of child disability on maternal labor supply due to both episodic conditions such as asthma and other health limitations that do not have episodic symptomology. This is the first study in the literature that child disabilities are broken down into asthma and non-asthma types and episodic versus nonepisodic types of health limitations. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), the differential impacts of child disability on maternal working hours are estimated using Wooldridge's (1995) method. The estimation takes account of unobserved individual effects and sample selection associated with mothers who choose not to work. The empirical results show that single mothers do not experience decreased working hours when they have a child with a health condition other than asthma, but their annual working hours decrease by 165 hours when there is an asthmatic child in the household. Married mothers have the same labor market response to both types of disabilities as their counterparts with healthy children. The second essay examines the effects of a disabled child on the mother's marital durations. This is the first study that provides a complete picture on how child disability affects different types of marital durations by examining whether child disability has a disruptive effect on the mother's marriage duration, whether child disability deters divorced mothers from being remarried, and how child disability affects never-married mothers' likelihood of starting a marriage. This study also investigates multiple married or unmarried spells to obtain more insight of how a child in poor health affects the mother's marital status in the long term, beyond the first marriage and the first divorce. Using data from NLSY79, the vast majority of individuals of the sample are followed for more than 20 years. The study uses a duration model, which has the advantage of taking into acco unt of time-varying covariates and censored observations. The estimation procedure also allows unobserved heterogeneity. The results show that a single mother with a disabled child has a significantly lower likelihood of starting a new marriage than her counterparts. Simulations show that child disability deters divorced and never-married mothers from a (re)marriage by an average of 15 months or 14 months, respectively, compared to the situation when the child is in good health. However, the results do not show any evidence that a disabled child has a disruptive effect on the parents' existing marriage.
	Bibliography Citation Feng, Peihong. The Impacts of Children's Disability on Mothers' Labor Supply and Marital Status. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, Economics, 2006. DAI-A 67/05, Nov 2006..

2.	Feng, Peihong Reagan, Patricia Benton
2.	The Child Asthma Epidemic: Consequences for Women's Labor Market Behavior Working Paper, Department of Economic, The Ohio State University, 2003. Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Asthma; Child Health; Children, Illness; Disability; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. By 1995, almost 22% of disabled children were disabled by asthma, making asthma the single most common cause of childhood disability in the United States. The presence of a child disabled by asthma poses unique barriers to the labor market activity of single mothers, because the symptoms are episodic and particularly disruptive of children's routine activities. This paper develops a model that differentiates the effects on maternal labor market activity of asthma from other conditions that lead to childhood disability. The model predicts differential responses of single and married mothers. These hypotheses are tested on a longitudinal sample of mothers. We find that a child disabled by asthma reduces labor force participation of single mothers by over 7% and reduces desired annual hours by 255. No statistically significant effects are found for single mothers of children disabled by other conditions. Married mothers have similar responses regardless of the type of disability. A child disabled for any reason reduces married mother's labor force participation by a modest 2.5%.
	Bibliography Citation Feng, Peihong and Patricia Benton Reagan. "The Child Asthma Epidemic: Consequences for Women's Labor Market Behavior." Working Paper, Department of Economic, The Ohio State University, 2003..

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