Who Owes What to Whom? Child Support Policy Given Multiple-Partner Fertility

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cancian ◽  
Daniel R. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Multiple Partner Fertility

Multiple‐Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Meyer ◽  
Maria Cancian ◽  
Steven T. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Multiple Partner Fertility

Child Support and Subsequent Nonmarital Fertility With a New Partner

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeongmin Kim ◽  
Maria Cancian ◽  
Daniel R. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Nonmarital Fertility ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Subsequent Fertility ◽  
Policy Experiment ◽  
Multiple Partner Fertility

When a parent has another child with a new partner, a significant effect on parents and children is likely, making factors associated with multiple-partner fertility of interest to policy makers. For single mothers, one potential policy-relevant factor influencing their subsequent fertility with a new partner is child support income. However, the direction and magnitude of any effect is not well-established. This study documents the simple negative relationship between child support and nonmarital fertility with a new partner in our sample of low-income unmarried mothers. We then take advantage of a policy experiment that resulted in randomly assigned differences in child support income to investigate its effects. We find no support for a negative causal relationship between child support receipt and nonmarital fertility with a new partner, instead finding suggestive evidence that mothers with more child support income are slightly more likely to have a subsequent nonmarital birth with a new partner.

scholarly journals Fathers’ Imprisonment and Mothers’ Multiple-Partner Fertility

Demography ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 2045-2074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cancian ◽  
Yiyoon Chung ◽  
Daniel R. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Multiple Partner Fertility
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