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The Impact of Percentage-Expressed Child Support Orders on Payments

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  • Judi Bartfeld
  • Irwin Garfinkel

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We examine the impacts on child support payments of explicitly indexing orders to noncustodial parents' incomes by expressing orders as a percentage of income rather than as a fixed sum. Using data collected from 21 counties in Wisconsin, we find that payments on behalf of percentage-expressed orders increase much faster than would be expected were orders expressed as a fixed sum, after controlling for differences between cases with the two award types. Collections on behalf of percentage-expressed orders increase relative to fixed-sum orders because of large increases over time in the amount of the obligation; in comparison, fixed-sum obligations are extremely stable.

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  • Judi Bartfeld & Irwin Garfinkel, 1996. "The Impact of Percentage-Expressed Child Support Orders on Payments," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 31(4), pages 794-815.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:31:y:1996:i:4:p:794-815
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    1. Sheena McConnell & Robert G. Wood & Barbara Goldman, "undated". "Marriage Disincentives Facing Low-Income Parents: Designing and Testing Policies to Reduce Them (presentation)," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 575835b22eb247a8a8deb869f, Mathematica Policy Research.
    2. Rocio Ribero & Daniela Del Boca, 2001. "The Effect of Child-Support Policies on Visitations and Transfers," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(2), pages 130-134, May.
    3. Irwin Garfinkel & Sara Mclanahan & Daniel Meyer & Judith Seltzer, 1998. "Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement in the USA (This CASEpaper is a summary of the book by the same title and authors, published by the Russel Sage Foundation, 1998)," CASE Papers 014, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    4. Irwin Garfinkel & Sara Mclanahan & Daniel Meyer & Judith Seltzer, 1998. "Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement in the USA (This CASEpaper is a summary of the book by the same title and authors, published by the Russel Sage Foundation, 1998)," CASE Papers case14, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.

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