Welfare and child support: Complements, not substitutes
Welfare and child support: Complements, not substitutes
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DOI：
10.1002/pam.20328
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Caspar, Emma
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作者：
Cancian, Maria;Meyer, Daniel R.;Caspar, Emma
在大多数州，以贫困家庭临时援助（TANF）参与者的名义支付的儿童抚养费用于抵消TANF和儿童抚养费的行政支出;这项政策主要使纳税人受益。相比之下，威斯康星州允许大多数监护父母代表他们保留所有抚养费。这项政策将福利和儿童抚养费视为补充，通过实验设计进行了评估。本文报告了实验评估的主要结果，使用国家行政数据来检查对儿童抚养结果和政府成本的影响。我们发现，当监护的母亲保持所有的子女抚养费支付代表他们，亲子关系的建立发生得更快，非监护的父亲更有可能支付支持，监护家庭得到更多的支持。这些成果是在政府没有付出重大代价的情况下取得的。(c)2008年，公共政策分析与管理协会。
In most states, child support paid on behalf of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participants is used to offset TANF and child support administrative expenditures; this policy primarily benefits taxpayers. In contrast, Wisconsin allowed most custodial parents to keep all support paid on their behalf This policy, which treats welfare and child support as complements, was evaluated through an experimental design. This paper reports the key results of the experimental evaluation, using state administrative data to examine the effects on child support outcomes and governmental cost. We find that when custodial mothers keep all child support paid on their behalf, paternity establishment occurs more quickly, noncustodial fathers are more likely to pay support, and custodial families receive more support. These outcomes are achieved at no significant governmental cost. (c) 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.