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Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility

Bloom, David E.; Conrad, Cecilia A.; Miller, Cynthia K. - 2021

This paper tests the hypothesis that child support obligations impede remarriage among nonresident fathers. Hazard … reveal that child support obligations deter remarriage among low-income nonresident fathers. The benefits to children of … share of nonresident fathers remarry and help support women with children. Indeed, simple calculations based on our findings …

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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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The Effect of Welfare Payments on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers : Results from a Twins Experiment

Grogger, Jeff; Bronars, Stephen G. - 2010

affects 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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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012

. In an attempt to promote gender equality, a reform made fathers of children born after April 1, 1993 in Norway eligible … for one month of governmental paid paternity leave. Fathers of children born before this cutoff were not eligible. There … is a sharp increase in fathers taking paternity leave immediately after the reform, with take up rising from 3% to 35 …

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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being

Aizer, Anna; McLanahan, Sara - 2021

enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock births and among those who do become fathers, to do so with more educated women …

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The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women : Evidence from the Census

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2021

This paper uses data from the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses to investigate the impact of welfare benefits across Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) on the incidence of single motherhood and headship for young women. A contribution of the paper is the inclusion of both MSA fixed effects and...

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The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform : The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2021

The tax and welfare programs that provide income and in-kind benefits to single mothers have changed dramatically in recent years. These changes began as far back as the mid-1980s and culminated with the 1996 welfare law that 'ended welfare as we knew it.' These tax and welfare changes have...

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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2021

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...

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Single Mothers Working at Night : Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2021

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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