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Title: The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?
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1. Huang, Chien-Chung
The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?
Social Service Review 76,2 (June 2002): 275-301.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/339666
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Child Support; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Divorce; Marital Status; Marriage; Racial Differences; Teenagers; Women

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article provides evidence that women who live in states with effective child-support enforcement, measured as both strict child-support legislation and high child-support expenditure, are more likely to have marital births and less likely to have nonmarital births. The findings suggest that the deterrence effect of child-support enforcement on men dominates the opposite effect of enforcement on women. For African-American women, effective child-support enforcement is estimated to decrease nonmarital births strongly. For white women, enforcement is estimated to increase marital births largely.
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Huang, Chien-Chung. "The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?" Social Service Review 76,2 (June 2002): 275-301.