The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Abortion in the <scp>U</scp>nited <scp>S</scp>tates*

Crowley, Jocelyn Elise; Jagannathan, Radha; Falchettore, Galo

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00829.x

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“…Similarly, find higher birthrates associated with WIC, but no effects on fertility (Lopoo & Raissian, 2012). Crowley et al (2012) report lower abortion rates in the states with stronger child support enforcement. find higher birthrates associated with WIC program, and in their review of the literature on natalist policies in the United States, Lopoo and Raissian (2012) conclude that many public policies have affected the fertility choices of families.…”

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“…Crowley et al. () report lower abortion rates in the states with stronger child support enforcement. Hoynes et al.…”

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“…Besides work disincentives, researchers have described behavioral responses to social policies including the positive effects of EITC on labor force participation among single mothers in the lowest cost areas (Fitzpatrick & Thompson, 2010). Lower abortion rates have been associated with the EITC (Herbst, 2011) as well as strong child support enforcement (Crowley et al, 2012). Similarly, find higher birthrates associated with WIC, but no effects on fertility (Lopoo & Raissian, 2012).…”

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Social Policy: What Have We Learned?

Guzman¹,

Pirog²,

Seefeldt³

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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In this review, we focus on current research on the major welfare program in the United States, food security programs, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Unemployment Insurance, child support, and tax provisions such as the Earned Income Tax Credit that provide substantial financial support for low‐income households and other potentially vulnerable populations such as the elderly and the unemployed. Since many of these are programs specifically targeted at poor and low‐income individuals, we also describe how poverty is defined in the United States, update readers on the ongoing debate over poverty measurement, and provide some comparison to how it is measured outside the United States. Looking across the various social policies addressed in this review and the associated recent research, one clear theme emerges: the United States is very concerned about work disincentives potentially embedded within these programs.

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“…Crowley et al. () report lower abortion rates in the states with stronger child support enforcement. Hoynes et al.…”

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Social Policy: What Have We Learned?

Guzman¹,

Pirog²,

Seefeldt³

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Antiabortion activists at the state level have sought legislation requiring that abortion providers hold admitting privileges to local hospitals. Others have sought legislation requiring that women receive counseling (and in some cases with mandatory sonograms) and undergo postcounseling waiting periods before abortion services can be provided (Meier and McFarlane 1992;Medoff 2002;Crowley, Jagannathan, and Falchettore 2012).…”

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Plausibility Structures, Status Threats, and the Establishment of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

McVeigh

Crubaugh

Estep

2017

American Journal of Sociology

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The authors offer a theoretical framework that resolves conflicting ideas found in extant theory pertaining to moral reform movements. The framework focuses on how community attributes, particularly the relative size of populations affiliated with supportive belief systems, shape moral reform activism by affecting both the convictions and motivations of potential supporters. The theory is applied in an analysis of county-level variation in the presence of antiabortion pregnancy centers (PCs). The authors find that the proportion of individuals affiliated with Roman Catholicism or evangelical denominations has a curvilinear relationship with PC establishment, reflecting the way in which group size can affirm convictions that are the lifeblood of moral reform but can also reduce motivation to act when the size of the group surpasses majority status. The authors also find that PCs are more likely to be found in communities where gender roles are relatively egalitarian. While some scholars have bemoaned the decline in social capital reflected in "bowling alone" imagery (Putnam 2000), others have proclaimed that we now 1 We are grateful to the Guttmacher Institute for providing us with data on abortion clinics. Some of the data utilized in this study were made available by the American Religion Data

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“…Research suggests that child support payments stabilize incomes, despite payment irregularity (Ha, Cancian, & Meyer, 2011), and that women who receive child support are more likely to leave welfare and less likely to return (Huang & Han, 2012). Stronger child support enforcement systems are associated with decreased non-marital teenage fertility (Plotnick et al 2004;Hao, Astone, & Cherlin, 2007), as well as decreased nonmarital fertility generally (Garfinkel, Huang, McLanahan, & Gaylin, 2003;Plotnick et al 2007) and lower abortion rates (Crowley, Jagannathan, & Falchettore, 2012). Stronger enforcement has also been associated with an increased likelihood that non-custodial parents (NCPs) select partners with higher levels of education (Aizer & McLanahan, 2006).…”

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Increasing Child Support Collections from the Hard-to-Collect: Experimental Evidence from Washington State

Plotnick

Glosser

Moore

et al. 2015

Social Service Review

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The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Abortion in the United States*

Abstract: Income transfer policies such as child support enforcement can affect certain fertility outcomes such as abortion rates across the states.

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Social Policy: What Have We Learned?

Social Policy: What Have We Learned?

Plausibility Structures, Status Threats, and the Establishment of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

Increasing Child Support Collections from the Hard-to-Collect: Experimental Evidence from Washington State

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