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Title: The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investments, and Child Well-being
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Aizer, Anna McLanahan, Sara S. |
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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investments, and Child Well-being The Journal of Human Resources 41,1 (Winter 2006): 28-45. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40057256 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; Child Support; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Fatherhood; Fathers; Fertility; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; State-Level Data/Policy Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, also may alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock births and among those who do become fathers, to do so with more educated women and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect child outcomes through two pathways: an increase in financial resources and a birth selection process. |
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Aizer, Anna and Sara S. McLanahan. "The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investments, and Child Well-being." The Journal of Human Resources 41,1 (Winter 2006): 28-45.
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