The Effect of Child Support Enforcement Efforts on Nonmarital Fertility and Marriage
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In this paper I use individual level data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine whether the strength of state child support enforcement efforts affects nonmarital birth or marriage rates. Evidence is mixed, but in the preferred specifications increased efforts at enforcement lead to a decrease in likelihood of marriage among never married childless women and a decrease in the annual likelihood of both a nonmarital birth and marriage among never married women with one child. .
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