The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investments, and Child Well-Being
研究发现加强子女抚养费强制执行会减少非婚生育，并使成为父亲的男性选择更愿意投资子女的女性，从而通过增加资源和改变生育选择两条路径影响儿童福祉。
Abstract 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.