IRP’s decades-long collaborations with the State of Wisconsin have led to the development of consistent income standards for determining child support awards, multiple policy evaluations of child support policy and practice initiatives, and the collection of an extended and uniquely complete series of court records of child support decisions in select Wisconsin counties.
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Cost of Raising Children and Expenditures on Children
- Cliff Robb
- Report
- June 2019
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How are Child Support Burdens Related to Child Support Payments, Compliance, and Regularity?
- Leslie Hodges, Daniel R. Meyer, and Maria Cancian
- Report
- March 2019
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Potential Effects of a Self-Support Reserve in Wisconsin
- Maria Cancian, Molly Costanzo, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- March 2019
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Closures of Unenforceable Cases: A Review of Child Support Agency Practice
- Molly Costanzo
- Report
- December 2018
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States’ Treatment of High-Income Payers
- Molly Costanzo
- Report
- December 2018
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Post-Divorce Placement Arrangements and Children’s Test Scores
- Judith Bartfeld and Fei Men
- Report
- July 2018
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Incarcerated Payers: A Review of Child Support Agency Practice
- Molly A. Costanzo
- Report
- July 2018
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County Performance and the Role of Incarceration
- Emma Frankham and Michael Massoglia
- Report
- July 2018
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Changes in the Incidence of Complex Families and the Implications for Child Support Orders
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
- Report
- December 2017
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Comparing Income-Shares and Percentage-of-Income Child Support Guidelines
- Maria Cancian and Molly A. Costanzo
- Report
- December 2017