Single Mothers and Their Child-Support Receipt: How Well Is Child-Support Enforcement Doing?

Sorensen, Elaine; Hill, Ariel

doi:10.2307/3559008

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“…As such, we do not report these results. The chosen empirical specification is comparable to recent work by Sorensen and Hill (2004).…”

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confidence: 54%

“…As a result, their estimates could reflect a pre-existing trend rather than the effect of joint-custody reform on child-support receipt, which could overstate the estimated effect. In fact, Sorensen and Hill (2004, Figure 1) present trends in child-support receipt rates for single mothers, indicating an overall upward trend during the time in which the majority of child-custody reforms occurred (i.e. the early-1980s).…”

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“…(1993) and Sorensen Hill (2004) for more discussion on the CSE program and its many reforms. The CSE program was implemented in states during the same time period as joint-custody reform.…”

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The Effect of Joint-Child-Custody Legislation on the Child-Support Receipt of Single Mothers

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Due to the preponderance of single mothers on public assistance, delinquent child support has been a contentious political issue in the U.S. for over 30 years. We examine whether joint-childcustody reform affects the child-support receipt of single mothers. We use variation in the timing of joint-custody reforms across states to identify the effect of joint custody on the child-support receipt of single mothers. Joint-custody enactment raises the probability of receiving child support for all single mothers by six percent. However, the effect on all single mothers is driven by the effect on divorced mothers since separated and never-married mothers are unaffected by joint-custody reform. We conclude joint-custody reform confers the most benefit on divorced mothers and their children, particularly those who do not receive public assistance.

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“…As such, we do not report these results. The chosen empirical specification is comparable to recent work by Sorensen and Hill (2004).…”

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“…Examples of this strategy include automatically withholding child support payments from paychecks. Research generally supports that this withholding technique has a positive association with child support payment compliance (e.g., Garfinkel & Robins, 1994;Sorensen & Halpern, 1999). This approach is again a form of coercive isomorphism and its application is a form of mimetic isomorphism (see Figure 1).…”

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“…This may involve jailing the person in the most severe cases, possibly intercepting tax refunds, or putting liens on the offender's property. The literature suggests that there is some evidence that these policies increase overall child support collections (Sorensen & Halpern, 1999). Some public policy attempts during the post-1996 reforms to browbeat so-called "deadbeat dads" into paying child support have had disastrous effects, however.…”

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Tax Incentive Proposals to Enhance Child Support Payment Compliance and Tax Progressivity

Fleischman

Khan

Hutchison

2014

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Currently, $38 billion in child support payments is due custodial parents in the United States. The purpose of this study is to investigate the public policy and theoretical economic implications associated with tax incentive proposals for child support payments. Institutional theory and economic modeling theoretically support this investigation. Overall, the study suggests that a tax incentive associated with child support payments would enhance tax progressivity and reduce income inequality while also enhancing non-custodial parent ability to pay their child support legal mandates. A tax incentive may also enhance child support payer perceptions of procedural and retributive justice.

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Declining employment among young black less-educated men: The role of incarceration and child support

Holzer

Offner

Sorensen

2005

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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In this paper, we explore the continuing decline in employment and labor force participation of nonenrolled Black men between the ages of 16 and 34 who have a high school education or less in the 1980s and 1990s. We focus on two fairly new developments: (1) the dramatic growth in the number of young Black men who have been incarcerated and (2) strengthened enforcement of child support policies. We analyze micro-level data from the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (CPS-ORG), into which state-level data over time on incarceration rates and child support enforcement have been merged. Our results indicate that previous incarceration and child support enforcement can account for half or more of the decline in employment activity among Black men aged 25-34. Previous incarceration also contributes to the decline among those aged 16-24. © 2005 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

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Single Mothers and Their Child-Support Receipt: How Well Is Child-Support Enforcement Doing?

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The Effect of Joint-Child-Custody Legislation on the Child-Support Receipt of Single Mothers

The Effect of Joint-Child-Custody Legislation on the Child-Support Receipt of Single Mothers

Tax Incentive Proposals to Enhance Child Support Payment Compliance and Tax Progressivity

Declining employment among young black less-educated men: The role of incarceration and child support

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