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The effect of child support enforcement on abortion in the United States
Jocelyn E Crowley1, Radha Jagannathan, Galo Falchettore
1Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Objectives:
This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States?
Methods:
Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of child support enforcement effectiveness impacts abortion outcomes.
Results:
We find that child support enforcement effectiveness decreases the incidence of abortion as measured by the abortion rate, but not the abortion ratio.
Conclusions:
Income transfer policies such as child support enforcement can affect certain fertility outcomes such as abortion rates across the states.
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