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Title: Can the Family Support Act Put Some Life Back Into Deadbeat Dads?
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Argys, Laura M. Peters, H. Elizabeth Waldman, Donald M. |
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Can the Family Support Act Put Some Life Back Into Deadbeat Dads? Journal of Human Resources 36,2 (Spring 2001): 226-252. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069658 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Child Support; Children; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Parents, Single Federal legislation mandates the use of child-support guidelines to improve adequacy and horizontal equity of child-support awards. Using state guideline formulas, and a sample of women drawn from the NLSY we compare the effects of guidelines on children born out of wedlock versus children whose parents divorced or separated. Our analyses indicate that guidelines increase the probability of child-support awards for children born out of wedlock. Guidelines also reduce variation in awards by eliminating outliers, not by equalizing awards across the entire distribution. Awards for high-income divorced or separated fathers fall substantially below the guideline amount. |
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Argys, Laura M., H. Elizabeth Peters and Donald M. Waldman. "Can the Family Support Act Put Some Life Back Into Deadbeat Dads?" Journal of Human Resources 36,2 (Spring 2001): 226-252.
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