title: The effect of child support enforcement on abortion in the United States.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
authors.forename: Jocelyn E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Crowley
authors.forename: Radha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jagannathan
authors.forename: Galo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Falchettore
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003267:Contraception / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D006076:Government / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000266:history; D007223:Infant; D011640:Public Policy / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D043762:Reproductive Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors / Q000266:history; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology