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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being / Anna Aizer, Sara McLanahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aizer, Anna.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11522.
- NBER working paper series no. w11522
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2005.
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