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1.	Brien, Michael J. Willis, Robert J.
1.	Costs and Consequences for the Fathers In: Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. R.A. Maynard, ed. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1997: pp. 95-143 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Urban Institute Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children; Education; Fathers; Fertility; Income; Mothers, Adolescent This chapter distinguishes two perspectives when assessing the consequences of teen parenting for fathers. The first is the fathers' perspective: What are the consequences for men who father children when they are themselves teenagers? The second is the mothers' perspective: What resources are potentially available from their partners and how do these resources vary with the age at which the women become mothers? Although men who have children as young teens begin their careers by having higher incomes and working more hours than those who delay, men who wait to have a child have higher levels of education, earn more, and work more hours by the time they reach their late 20s. The important question for policy is how much this difference has to do with differences in the characteristics of those who become young fathers and those who do not, and how much with the fact of the birth and whether the man takes responsibility for the child by marrying the mother. The authors pursue answers t o these questions with a series of statistical analyses designed to isolate the various influences at work.
	Bibliography Citation Brien, Michael J. and Robert J. Willis. "Costs and Consequences for the Fathers" In: Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. R.A. Maynard, ed. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1997: pp. 95-143

2.	Brien, Michael J. Willis, Robert J.
2.	Estimating the Child Support Potential of Nonresident Fathers and the Partners of Welfare Mothers Working Paper, University of Virginia and University of Michigan, August 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Author Keyword(s): Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Influence; Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper attempts to measure the extent of the potential resources that could be provided by the fathers of children born to women who either subsequently participate in welfare programs or do not reside with the father of their child. We construct a profile of the potential support available to a child over the first 18 years of the child's life. To circumvent problems associated with the lack of data on absent partners, we use a statistical matching procedure that allows us to link mothers and fathers. The analysis uses data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey and the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. The evidence suggests that these men are able to provide a substantial level of support. This support could help alleviate the high level of poverty among these families and defer public expenditures on their behalf.
	Bibliography Citation Brien, Michael J. and Robert J. Willis. "Estimating the Child Support Potential of Nonresident Fathers and the Partners of Welfare Mothers." Working Paper, University of Virginia and University of Michigan, August 1997.

3.	Brien, Michael J. Willis, Robert J.
3.	The Partners of Welfare Mothers. Potential Earnings and Child Support The Future of Children: Welfare to Work 7,1 (Spring 1997). Also: http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info_show.htm?doc_id=72223 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs - Princeton - Brookings Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Child Support; Fathers, Absence; Fertility; Mothers, Race; Racial Differences; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Public interest in promoting the self-sufficiency of families that depend on welfare concerns the ability of fathers, as well as mothers, to support their children through employment. Many welfare recipients are never-married women, and their children seldom receive child support payments. This article estimates the financial resources that go untapped when child support is not collected from the men who father children who later receive AFDC benefits. While these men may earn little at the time the child is born their incomes are likely to escalate over time. The child support payments they would make over the child's first 18 years equal almost half of the welfare benefit received by the mother and child. Based on these probable long-term earnings, the authors urge policymakers to invest in efforts to establish paternity and collect child support.
	Bibliography Citation Brien, Michael J. and Robert J. Willis. "The Partners of Welfare Mothers. Potential Earnings and Child Support ." The Future of Children: Welfare to Work 7,1 (Spring 1997).

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