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This article provides information on the effectiveness of state child support enforcement systems. We use individual level data from the Child Support Supplements of the Current Population Surveys (1978-1992) to create an index of state effectiveness that captures success at securing child support awards, setting award levels, and collecting obligations. We identify states that were performing above or below the national average in the late 1980s to early 1990s and states that showed substantial improvement or decline in child support effectiveness during the 1980s. Identifying successful states will help researchers to determine what policies and practices are associated with successful enforcement. These variations in state effectiveness also suggest that low levels of child support are not due to deadbeat dads alone but also to inept states. 相似文献
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Unwed fathers’ ability to pay child support: New estimates accounting for multiple-partner fertility
We present new estimates of unwed fathers’ ability to pay child support. Prior research relied on surveys that drastically
undercounted nonresident unwed fathers and provided no link to their children who lived in separate households. To overcome
these limitations, previous research assumed assortative mating and that each mother partnered with one father who was actually
eligible to pay support and had no other child support obligations. Because the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
contains data on couples, multiple-partner fertility, and a rich array of other previously unmeasured characteristics of fathers,
it is uniquely suited to address the limitations of previous research. We also use an improved method of dealing with missing
data. Our findings suggest that previous research overestimated the aggregate ability of unwed nonresident fathers to pay
child support by 33% to 60%. 相似文献
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Jane Waldfogel Patrick Villeneuve Irwin Garfinkel 《Journal of social service research》2013,39(4):1-27
Abstract This paper uses data from the Current Population Survey and administrative data from New York to simulate the poverty impact of the recent federal and state welfare reforms. We find that the federal welfare reforms would in the absence of additional state or local aid raise the poverty rate of families with children and the poverty gap (the amount needed to raise poor families’ incomes up to the poverty line). Although New York state and local welfare programs will offset much of this impact, we find that even with state and local aid, 16,000 families with children will move into poverty and 63,000 families with children, most of them already poor, will move into severe poverty, while the aggregate poverty gap will increase by nearly 25%. 相似文献
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Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and material hardship in the children's households. Results suggest that fathers' formal and informal child support payments and contact with their children independently reduce the number of hardships in the mothers' households; however, only the impact of fathers' contact with children is robust in models that include lagged dependent variables or individual fixed effects. Furthermore, cross-lagged models suggest that material hardship decreases future father involvement, but future hardship is not diminished by father involvement (except in-kind contributions). These results point to the complexity of these associations and to the need for future research to focus on heterogeneity of effects within the population. 相似文献