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.

Potential Effects of a Self-Support Reserve in Wisconsin
- Maria Cancian, Molly Costanzo, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- March 2019

Closures of Unenforceable Cases: A Review of Child Support Agency Practice
- Molly Costanzo
- Report
- December 2018

States’ Treatment of High-Income Payers
- Molly Costanzo
- Report
- December 2018

Post-Divorce Placement Arrangements and Children’s Test Scores
- Judith Bartfeld and Fei Men
- Report
- July 2018

Incarcerated Payers: A Review of Child Support Agency Practice
- Molly A. Costanzo
- Report
- July 2018

County Performance and the Role of Incarceration
- Emma Frankham and Michael Massoglia
- Report
- July 2018

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

Comparing Income-Shares and Percentage-of-Income Child Support Guidelines
- Maria Cancian and Molly A. Costanzo
- Report
- December 2017

The Role of Formal Child Support in Children’s Academic Achievement
- Vanessa Ríos-Salas
- Report
- June 2017

Reducing the Interest Rate Charged on Child Support Arrears
- Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Serakos
- Report
- June 2017