The Roles of Child Support Enforcement and Welfare in Non-Marital Childbearing

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 les...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of Population Economics. - Springer Science + Business Media. - 16(2003), 1, Seite 55-70
1. Verfasser:	Garfinkel, Irwin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Huang, Chien-Chung, McLanahan, Sara S., Gaylin, Daniel S.
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2003
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Journal of Population Economics
Schlagworte:	H I J Child support enforcement nonmarital births Law Political science Social sciences Mathematics Applied sciences Biological sciences