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Author: Ku, Inhoe
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Plotnick, Robert D. Garfinkel, Irwin Gaylin, Daniel S. McLanahan, Sara S. Ku, Inhoe |
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Better Child Support Enforcement: Can it Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing? Working Paper #99-01, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 1999. Also: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP99-01-Plotnick.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Support; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Ethnic Differences; Hispanics; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Stricter child support enforcement may reduce unwed childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. We investigate this hypothesis using a sample of young women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to which we add information on state child support enforcement. Models of the probability of a teenage premarital birth and of teenage premarital pregnancy and pregnancy resolution provide tentative evidence that, during the early 1980s, teens living in states with higher rates of paternity establishment were less likely to become unwed mothers. This relationship is stronger for non-Hispanic whites than for non-Hispanic blacks. The findings suggest that policies that shift more costs of premarital childbearing to men may reduce this behavior, at least among non-Hispanic whites. |
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Plotnick, Robert D., Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel S. Gaylin, Sara S. McLanahan and Inhoe Ku. "Better Child Support Enforcement: Can it Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing?" Working Paper #99-01, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 1999. |
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Plotnick, Robert D. Garfinkel, Irwin McLanahan, Sara S. Ku, Inhoe |
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Better Child Support Enforcement: Can It Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing? Journal of Family Issues 25,5 (July 2004): 634-658. Also: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=13470389&db=aph Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Child Support; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Ethnic Differences; Fatherhood; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Sexual Behavior; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Stricter child support enforcement may reduce unwed childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. The authors investigate this hypothesis using a sample of young women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to which they add information on state child support enforcement. Models of the probability of a teenage premarital birth and of teenage premarital pregnancy and pregnancy resolution provide tentative evidence that during the early 1980s, teens living in states with higher rates of paternity establishment were less likely to become unwed mothers. This relationship is stronger for non-Hispanic Whites than for non-Hispanic Blacks. The findings suggest that policies that shift more costs of premarital childbearing to men may reduce this behavior, at least among non-Hispanic Whites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Bibliography Citation
Plotnick, Robert D., Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. McLanahan and Inhoe Ku. "Better Child Support Enforcement: Can It Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing?" Journal of Family Issues 25,5 (July 2004): 634-658.
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