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Title: The Impact of Child Support on Enforcement of Nonmarital and Marital Births: Is It Different by Racial and Age Groups?
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Huang, Chien-Chung |
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The Impact of Child Support on Enforcement of Nonmarital and Marital Births: Is It Different by Racial and Age Groups? Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Child Support; Fertility; Marital Status; Neighborhood Effects; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the 1979 through 1998 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women (NLSY), this paper provides evidence that women who lived in states with effective child support enforcement, measured by both strict child support legislatives and high child support expenditure, were more likely to have marital births and less likely to have nonmarital births. The findings suggest the deterrence effects of child support enforcement on men dominate the opposite effects on women. The impacts of child support enforcement differ by racial and age groups. For post-teenage Black women, effective child support enforcement had strong effects on decreasing nonmarital births, but not on increasing marital births. The impact goes the opposite way for post-teenage non-Black women. The insignificant effects of child support enforcement on teenage women, however, warrant further analysis in order to determine the cause. |
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Bibliography Citation
Huang, Chien-Chung. "The Impact of Child Support on Enforcement of Nonmarital and Marital Births: Is It Different by Racial and Age Groups?" Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001. |