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 …

affects fertility …

-separation fertility, and reduce labor supply among high-income fathers. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child …

. 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 …

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

work-related reforms increased single parenthood and decreased marriage to biological fathers. These results are especially … labor force participation and earnings of single mothers combined with factors special to biological fathers, including a …