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Applying the Economic Model of Crime to Child Support Enforcement: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

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Child support noncompliance affects both the family and the taxpayer. This papers models the decision to pay based on expected utility maximization. The amount unpaid is determined jointly with the expected enforcement probability. A two-stage estimation technique requiring ordinary least squares and probit is used. The author improves upon previous problems with measurement error and sex-restricted data in deterrence and child support studies, the treatment of endogenous deterrence variables as exogenous, and the use of aggregate data. He finds a joint relationship between the amount unpaid and the enforcement probability. Policies are suggested for increasing compliance and payments to the family. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.

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  • Beron, Kurt J, 1988. "Applying the Economic Model of Crime to Child Support Enforcement: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 70(3), pages 382-390, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:70:y:1988:i:3:p:382-90
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    1. Meyer, Daniel R. & Riser, Quentin H., 2023. "Slowing the ‘vicious cycle’: Reducing the interest rate on child support arrears," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    2. Kurt J. Beron, 1990. "Policy Issues And Child Support Payment Behavior: Empirical Findings," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 8(1), pages 124-134, January.
    3. Meyer, Daniel R. & Cancian, Maria & Waring, Melody K., 2020. "Use of child support enforcement actions and their relationship to payments," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).

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