If so how.
Take into account
- Money is paid to the mother and mostly can be used to make the mother happy instead of his son
- Amount is proportional to income and something the man can't negotiate before conception
- Money can be used to be spent on things father disagree, like gender reassignment
- Provide very strong incentives for women to leave rich men and take his son. So that may discourage rich men from having more children.
Gemini says yes. But I want to know what economists think.
What I mean by reducing fertility, I do not mean necessarily reducing fertility to 0. A rich man that may want to have 20 children can end up having only 3 and go to jail or lost a lot of money because of that.
Would Becker Barro and other economists agree that child support laws reduce fertility of rich men?
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