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Author: Comanor, William S.
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Comanor, William S. Phillips, Llad |
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Family Structure and Child Support: What Matters for Youth Delinquency Rates? In: Law and Economics of Child Support Payment. William S. Comanor, ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008: 269-287 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior, Antisocial; Child Support; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Income; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Presence; Household Structure; Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Editorial Reviews Book Description The delinquent payment of child support by non-custodial to custodial parents is a major problem throughout the United States. To many observers, the problem is one of 'deadbeat dads' - men who simply will not make the required payments. The solution has been to enforce payment by the imposition of increasingly stringent civil and criminal penalties. Despite these efforts, the percentage of single mothers receiving child support has changed very little over the past twenty-five years. The Law and Economics of Child Support Payments investigates why this is, and approaches the payment of child support as an economic problem. To understand the issues involved, leading lawyers and economists examine various facets of the child support system from a law and economics perspective. They consider the incentives faced by both custodial and non-custodial parents, and search for policy actions that are more incentive-compatible for all participants. The assumptions underlying current child support guidelines are discussed, as are the ways in which child support payments affect family structure, teenage delinquency and income disparities between parents. This comprehensive, provocative volume will be of considerable interest to policymakers, lawyers and parent advocacy groups, as well as to students of this timely issue. |
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Comanor, William S. and Llad Phillips. "Family Structure and Child Support: What Matters for Youth Delinquency Rates?" In: Law and Economics of Child Support Payment. William S. Comanor, ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008: 269-287
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Comanor, William S. Phillips, Llad |
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The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency Journal of Applied Economics 5,2 (November 2002): 209-232. Also: http://www.cema.edu.ar/publicaciones/download/volume5/comanor.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA) Keyword(s): Children, Behavioral Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Income; Family Structure; Family Studies; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Presence Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There is no more important issue in the economics of the family than the impact of parents on the behavior of their children. By providing rewards and imposing constraints, parents seek to affect their children's behavior. The explanation of these actions is that the child's conduct directly enters into the parent's utility function. In this paper, we use that framework to explore the role of parental control over his or her child's delinquent behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate the impact of family income and various dimensions of family structure on a youth's contact with the criminal justice system between the ages of 14 and 22. From this analysis, we conclude that the single most important factor affecting these measures of delinquency is the presence of his father in the home. All other factors, including family income, are much less important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]. |
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Bibliography Citation
Comanor, William S. and Llad Phillips. "The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency." Journal of Applied Economics 5,2 (November 2002): 209-232.
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