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Title: Child Support Payments: Effects on the Educational Achievement of Children in Single Parent Families
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Knox, Virginia Williams |
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Child Support Payments: Effects on the Educational Achievement of Children in Single Parent Families Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1993 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Support; Children, Behavioral Development; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Welfare This dissertation evaluates the effects of child support payments from absent fathers on the educational achievement of children in single parent families. Local state and federal efforts to reform child support enforcement systems should be informed by an understanding of whether and how payments affect children's outcomes. Two longitudinal data sets the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are used to evaluate these effects. The main hypotheses tested are whether child support payments affect children's grades completed at age 21, their achievement test scores in elementary school, and their level of behavior problems in elementary school. |
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Knox, Virginia Williams. Child Support Payments: Effects on the Educational Achievement of Children in Single Parent Families. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1993. |