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Direct linkMincy, Ronald; Garfinkel, Irwin; Nepomnyaschy, Lenna – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005
This article assesses the effectiveness of in-hospital paternity establishment, a federal requirement since 1993. We avoid biases in previous studies by using a national sample of nonmarital births (N= 3,254), by including detailed controls for characteristics of unwed mothers and previously unavailable controls for characteristics of fathers, and…
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