September 2014 | Robert D. Plotnick, University of Washington; Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University; Sara McLanahan, Princeton University; and Inhoe Ku, Chonbuk University

The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-marital Childbearing

This is a link to a discussion paper on the Institute of Research on Poverty (IRP) website that concludes that improved  child support enforcement makes it more likely that men will choose to avoid having nonmarital children.

Link: The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Non-marital Childbearing



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