The child support enforcement system plays a critical role in facilitating private income transfers from noncustodial parents to their nonresident children. It also functions as a cost-recovery mechanism for government expenditures on these children. The program serves a majority of custodial families and transfers a substantial amount of support. Moreover, child support receipt has been credited with considerably reducing poverty.
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The Father-Child Relationship in Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgment Cases
- Patricia R. Brown
- Report
- February 2006
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Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Child Placements
- Patricia Brown, Eun Hee Joung, and Lawrence M. Berger
- Report
- February 2006
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Difference-in-Difference Evaluation of the Wisconsin Full Child Support Pass-Through Policy: Final Report
- Steven T. Cook and Emma Caspar
- Report
- February 2006
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Knowledge about Child Support Policy in a Changing Environment
- Kisun Nam, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- February 2006
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Participant Knowledge of the Child Support Pass-Through and Disregard: Interviews With Local Child Support and W-2 Staff
- Thomas Kaplan and Victoria Mayer
- Report
- February 2006
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Explaining the Patterns of Child Support among Unmarried Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York
- Katherine A. Magnuson
- Report
- February 2006
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Mothers’ Family Networks and Livelihood in the Context of Child Support Enforcement Policy
- Jane Collins and Victoria Mayer
- Report
- January 2006
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SSI Caretaker Cases, Child Support, and Economic Well-Being
- Hwa-Ok Park and Sandra Magaña
- Report
- October 2005
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Knowledge of Child Support Policy Rules: How Little We Know
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Kisun Nam
- Discussion Paper
- April 2005