PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anna Aizer
AU  - Sara McLanahan
TI  - The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investments, and Child Well-Being
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.1.28
DP  - 2006 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 28--45
VI  - XLI
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/28.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/28.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2006 Jan 01; XLI
AB  - Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, also may alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock births and among those who do become fathers, to do so with more educated women and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect child outcomes through two pathways: an increase in financial resources and a birth selection process.