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Source: International Review of Law and Economics
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Allen, Douglas W. Brinig, Margaret F. |
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Child Support Guidelines and Divorce Incentives International Review of Law and Economics 32,3 (September 2012): 309-316. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818812000300 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Child Support; Divorce; Income A child support guideline is a formula used to calculate support payments based on a few family characteristics. Guidelines began replacing court awarded support payments in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were eventually mandated by the federal government in 1988. Two fundamentally different types of guidelines are used: percentage of obligor income, and income shares models. This paper explores the incentives to divorce under the two schemes, and uses the NLSY data set to test the key predictions. We find that percentage of obligor income models are destabilizing for some families with high incomes. This may explain why several states have converted from obligor to income share models, and it provides a subtle lesson for the no-fault divorce debate. |
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Bibliography Citation
Allen, Douglas W. and Margaret F. Brinig. "Child Support Guidelines and Divorce Incentives." International Review of Law and Economics 32,3 (September 2012): 309-316.
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Richey, Jeremiah Alexander |
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Shackled Labor Markets: Bounding the Causal Effects of Criminal Convictions in the U.S. International Review of Law and Economics 41 (March 2015): 17-24. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014481881400074X Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Crime; Earnings; Incarceration/Jail; Labor Economics; Labor Market Outcomes; Racial Differences This paper examines the causal effects of criminal convictions on labor market outcomes in young men using U.S. data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort. Unlike previous research in this area which relies on assumptions strong enough to obtain point identification, this paper imposes relatively weak nonparametric assumptions that provide tight bounds on treatment effects. Even in the absence of a parametric model, under certain specifications, a zero effect can be ruled out, though after a bias correction this result is lost. In general the results for the effect on yearly earnings align well with previous findings, though the estimated effect on weeks worked are smaller than in previous findings which focused on the effects of incarceration. The bounds here indicate the penalty from convictions, but not incarceration, lowers weeks worked by at most 1.55 weeks for white men and at most 4 weeks for black men. Interestingly, when those ever incarcerated are removed from the treatment group for black men, there does not appear to be any effect of convictions on earnings or wages but only on weeks worked. |
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Bibliography Citation
Richey, Jeremiah Alexander. "Shackled Labor Markets: Bounding the Causal Effects of Criminal Convictions in the U.S." International Review of Law and Economics 41 (March 2015): 17-24.
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