Policy Watch: Child Support Policies

Income Support Policy and the U . S . Child Support System

The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies

Previous research indicates that welfare reform policies – work requirements, sanctions, and child support enforcement – had negative consequences for mothers’ health insurance coverage and use of health care service, but there is very little evidence that these policies affected maternal health. This paper examines the effects of post-reform welfare and child support policies on maternal healt...

The Effects of Child Support Pass-Through and Disregard Policies

This paper is based on a report prepared under Contract C-1980 between the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and the Institute for Research on Poverty. The authors thank Emma Caspar for exceptional efforts in supervising the collection of the policy variables used in this analysis, Judith Cassetty and Royce Hutson for work on related projects on which this analysis draws, and Dawn D...

The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Nonmarital Childbearing

A simple model of fatherhood and marriage choice implies that stricter child support enforcement will tend to reduce nonmarital childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. We investigate this hypothesis by examining nonmarital childbearing during 1980–1993, a period when child support policy and enforcement underwent enormous changes. We use a sample of women from the Panel Study of Income...

Multiple-Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy

Workforce Development and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Any views expressed in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsoring institutions. The authors thank Patricia Brown, CSDE Data Manager, and programming staff of the Institute for Research on Poverty for their outstanding programming and construction of the data files used for this analysis. We th...