Working Papers

  1. Child Support Enforcement and Domestic Violence with Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
  2. Is Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Affected by Divorce?
  3. Healthy Baby, Healthy Marriage? The Effect of Children's Health on Divorce
  4. Child Support Enforcement and Bargaining among Married and Cohabiting Couples with Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
  5. Long-term Economic Outcomes of Asthma with Phaedra Corso
  6. Long-term Economic Outcomes of Health at Birth with Phaedra Corso

Selected Publications

  1. P. Corso and A. Fertig, The Economic Impact of Child Maltreatment in the United States: Are the Estimates Credible? Child Abuse & Neglect, forthcoming
  2. A. Fertig, Selection and the Effect of Prenatal Smoking, Health Economics, forthcoming
  3. A. Fertig and T. Watson, Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes, Journal of Health Economics, 28(3) 2009, 737-747.
  4. A. Fertig, G. Glomm, and R. Tchernis, The Connection between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanism, Review of Economics of the Household, 7(3) 2009, 227-255.
  5. A. Fertig and D. Reingold, The characteristics and causes of homelessness among at risk families with children in twenty American cities, Social Service Review  82(3) (2008) 485-510.
  6. A. Fertig and D. Reingold “Public Housing, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes: Is there a connection?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26(4) (2007) 831-859.
  7. A. Case, A. Fertig, and C. Paxson "The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance" Journal of Health Economics, 24 (2005) 365-389.
  8. A. Fertig "Trends in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States" Journal of Income Distribution, 12 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004) 108-130.