The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Marital Dissolution
研究美国子女抚养费强制执行政策对婚姻解体的影响，发现更强的执行力度会减少婚姻破裂，尤其对离婚后妻子更可能领取福利的夫妻效果更大。
This paper examines the effect of government child support enforcement (CSE) on marital dissolution [in the United States]. By raising the financial obligation of the absent father to the single mother under divorce CSE generally lowers the wifes cost of divorce. On the other hand it raises the husbands cost. Hence the net effect of CSE on divorce is a priori ambiguous in sign. Using Current Population Survey data matched to CSE program data I find empirical evidence that stronger CSE reduces marital breakup. This effect is larger for couples in which the wife is more likely to be a welfare recipient under divorce. (EXCERPT)