Transfer program enforcement and children’s time allocation

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...

Competition in Law Enforcement and Capital Allocation

This paper studies interjurisdictional competition in the fight against crime and its impact on occupational choice and the allocation of capital. In a world where capital is mobile, jurisdictions are inhabited by individuals who choose to become workers or criminals. Because the return of the two occupations depends on capital, and because investment in capital in a jurisdiction depends on its...

MSHA's Revised Quartz Enforcement Program

THOMAS F. TOMB, PAULS. PAROBECK, and ANDREW J. GERO Pittsburgh Health Technology Center, Mine Safety and Health Administration was greater than five percent. Such a formula was developed and is included in Parts 70.101, 71.101, and 90.101 of Title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). These regulations state that: "When the respirable dust in the mine atmosphere of the active workings contains...

Choices in Regulatory Program Design and Enforcement

Law Enforcement Resource Allocation (LERA) System

LERA, the information visualization system presented in this paper, is an interactive, scatterplot visualization system that was designed to support crime analysts in exploring the effects of various law enforcement administration programs and policies on crime rates. Several important features were incorporated in our system to meet this goal. In particular LERA provides the user with the abil...