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Child support: Trends and policy.

Neelakantan, Urvi.

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Child support: Trends and policy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Child support: Trends and policy./
Author:	Neelakantan, Urvi.
Description:	80 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1451.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3172831
ISBN:	0542099934

Child support: Trends and policy.
Neelakantan, Urvi.

Child support: Trends and policy. - 80 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1451.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2005.

Beginning in 1975, the U.S. government passed several laws to strengthen its child support system. Significant changes took place in 1984 when each state introduced uniform guidelines to determine child support awards and wage withholding to improve enforcement. The reforms have been evaluated on their success in increasing child support payments, improving compliance, and reducing single mothers' dependence on welfare programs.

ISBN: 0542099934Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Child support: Trends and policy.
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520 $a Beginning in 1975, the U.S. government passed several laws to strengthen its child support system. Significant changes took place in 1984 when each state introduced uniform guidelines to determine child support awards and wage withholding to improve enforcement. The reforms have been evaluated on their success in increasing child support payments, improving compliance, and reducing single mothers' dependence on welfare programs.
520 $a National-level data from the Child Support Supplement of the Current Population Survey shows that, contrary to expectations, child support declined over the early part of the reform period. Average real child support payments to divorced mothers fell by 21.4% from $2 927.31 in 1978 to $2 301.72 in 1983. On the other hand, court-record data from Wisconsin shows child support payments increasing from $2 315.07 in 1984 to $4 902.46 in 1993.
520 $a An accounting method is devised to measure the impact of various factors on the observed trends. Results show that a fall in fathers' incomes was responsible for 64% of the decline in U.S. child support payments between 1978 and 1983 while 35% of the increase in child support payments in Wisconsin between 1984 and 1993 was due to improved compliance.
520 $a The welfare participation rate among divorced mothers in Wisconsin decreased from 28.9% in 1981 to 14.4% in 1992. What role did the child support reforms play in the improvements in payments and welfare dependency? A model of divorced parents' behavior is developed and calibrated to the Wisconsin data. Results show that the introduction of the guidelines accounts for 31% of the increase in payments, while the improvement in enforcement accounts for 56%. If Wisconsin had adapted guidelines like Indiana's, for example, in which the amount due depended on both parents' incomes rather than on the non-custodial parent's income, awards would have been 33.6% lower and payments 20.5% lower. The increase in child support income alone accounts for a 3 percentage point decline in the welfare participation rate while the decrease in welfare benefits alone accounts for a 6.7 percentage point decline. Together they account for a decline of 13.5 percentage points---93% of the actual decline in the welfare participation rate.
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