Child support and public policy: Securing support from absent father

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

Group decision support for public policy planning

Decision support often focuses on substantive rationality (what to choose). The procedural rationality (how to choose) of the process of long-term strategic decision making is then often neglected. In strategic decision making, supporting the decision process is more important than supporting the search for an ‘‘optimal’’ solution to the problem, especially since for most policy problems a well...

Institute'for Researchon Poverty Special Report Series Wisconsin Study Of~absent . Fathersf Ability to Pay More Child Support Wisconsin Study of absent Fathers' Ability to Pay More Child Support

M~Donald was the principal investigator and wrote most of the report. Moran did virtually all of the computer work and wrote the rest of the report. Garfinkel supervised data collection, designed the research project, and was the principal author of the funding proposal.

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...

Explaining trends in child support: economic, demographic, and policy effects.

We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine trends in the receipt of child support (and the determinants of trends) between 1968 and 1997. The findings suggest that political, demographic, and economic forces all exerted downward pressure on child-support payments during this 30-year period, with inflation, the shift to unilateral divorce, and declines in fertility and men's ...