Garfinkel, Irwin; Huang, Chien-Chung; McLanahan, Sara S.; … - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 1, pp. 55-70
This paper examines the effects of stronger child support enforcement and declines in welfare benefits on changes in non-marital childbearing between 1980 and 1996. Economic theory suggests that stricter child support enforcement will increase the costs of children for unwed fathers, making them...
