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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being
Aizer, Anna; McLanahan, Sara - 2021
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...
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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility
Bloom, David E.; Conrad, Cecilia; Miller, Cynthia - 2021
subsequent fertility …
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Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations : Evidence from Administrative Data
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016
-separation fertility, and reduce labor supply among high-income fathers. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child …
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Understanding Child Support Trends : Economic, Demographic, and Political Contributions
Case, Anne; Lin, I-Fen; McLanahan, Sara - 2021
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine trends in child support payments over the past thirty years and to assess five different explanations for these trends: inflation, the shift to unilateral divorce, changes in marital status composition, changes in men's and...
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Child Support : Interaction between Private and Public Transfers
Lerman, Robert I.; Sorensen, Elaine - 2021
Child support is a private transfer that is integral to the means-tested public transfer system. Support payments generally lower the budget costs of welfare as well the incentives for parents to participate. The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, which establishes and enforces support...
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Dunning Delinquent Dads : the Effects of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Receipt by Never Married Women
Freeman, Richard B.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2021
Since the mid-1970s, the number of single-parent families has increased greatly in the U.S., contributing to the nation's child poverty problem. In response, the federal government and various states have tried to increase child support payments from non-custodial parents. Using data from...
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Asian Demography and Foreign Capital Dependence
Higgins, Matthew; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
Ansley Coale and Edgar Hoover were right about Asia. Rising fertility and declining infant mortality have had a …
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility Under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …
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Fertility and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131131
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2011
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
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