Child Support Policy Research

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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The Child Support Referral Process for Out-of-Home Placements: Potential Modifications to Current Policy

  • Lanikque Howard, Jennifer L. Noyes, and Maria Cancian
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  • December 2013
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Are Complex Families Becoming More Common?

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
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  • September 2013
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Refugees and the Wisconsin Child Support Enforcement System

  • Patricia R. Brown and Steven T. Cook
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  • December 2012
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Children’s Placement Arrangements in Divorce and Paternity Cases in Wisconsin

  • Patricia Brown and Steven T. Cook
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  • November 2012
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Child Support Debt: Tracing the Evolution of the Problem and Implications for Policy Solutions

  • Yeongmin Kim, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
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  • November 2012
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Child Support Referrals for Out-of-Home Placements: A Review of Policy and Practice

  • Carol Chellew, Jennifer L. Noyes, and Rebekah Selekman
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  • October 2012
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The Wisconsin Mothers with Young Children Study (WiscMoms): Report on a Pilot Survey of Formal and Informal Support of Children in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Jessica Price
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  • October 2012
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Exploring Reasons for the Decline in Child Support Orders among Paternity Cases

  • Maria Cancian, Yiyu Chen, Eunhee Han, and Daniel R. Meyer
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  • October 2012