LEGAL REGULATION OF CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS

Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations: Evidence from Administrative Data∗

We leverage non-linearities in Danish child support guidelines and rich administrative data to provide causal estimates of parental behavioral responses to child support obligations. We estimate that a 1, 000 DKK ($160) increase in a father’s obligation is associated with a 273 DKK ($45) increase in his payment. A higher obligation reduces father-child co-residence, pointing to substitution bet...

Open disclosure: ethical, professional and legal obligations, and the way forward for regulation.

Open disclosure (OD) after adverse health care events is the subject of a national standard that has been implemented in state health policy documents, and is included in the Medical Board of Australia's code of conduct for doctors. Nevertheless, doctors have been slow to embrace the practice of OD. There is a strong ethical case for implementing OD in the primary interests of patients, and add...

Editorial: The abused child--physicians' obligations.

Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations: Causal Evidence from Administrative Data∗

We leverage non-linearities in Danish child support guidelines together with rich administrative data to provide causal estimates of parental behavioral responses to child support obligations. We estimate that among families with formal child support agreements, a 1, 000 DKK ($183) increase in a father’s annual obligation is associated with a 573 DKK ($104) increase in his annual payment. Howev...

Ethical, professional, and legal obligations in clinical practice.

This is the second discussion topic in a series of five dealing with ethical, professional, and legal obligations of clinical practice.Junior doctors tend to lack confidence in these subjects, and thus I organised a series of informal discussions in our surgical unit on which these articles are based. The sessions were prepared with reference to non-academic literature readily available from th...