may provide an alternative explanation for the well-established finding that child health improves when mothers control a …

their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

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 … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …

. Using new data on Medicaid outreach, enrollment and child hospitalizations in California, I find that information and …