CHILD SUPPORT, CHILD WELFARE & EFFECTS OF WELFARE REFORM

儿童抚养、儿童福利

• 批准号: 6600244
• 负责人: H ELIZABETH PETERS
• 金额: $ 8.03万
• 依托单位: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-12 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6600244
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child abuse; child care; child foster care /adoption; child welfare; clinical research; cooperative study; dyadic interaction; family structure /dynamics; father child interaction; human data; human subject; low socioeconomic status; marriage /marital status; outcomes research; parent deprivation; parent offspring interaction; public assistance; quality of life; socioeconomics; unwanted child

Two demographic phenomenon that have affected the wellbeing of children in recent decades are 1) the increase in labor force participation rates of mothers with young children, leading to a concern about the quality, cost, and availability of child care, and 2) the increase in divorce rates that has increased the proportion of children who live in single parent families and has contributed to increasing poverty rates for children. This proposal describes two separate projects relating to these issues. The first part of the proposal explores the relationships between child support awards, the non-custodial parent's (NCP) willingness to pay child support, state enforcement efforts, and compliance with the awards. We develop a game-theoretic bargaining model of child support awards and payments that is based on the idea that some NCPs will be willing to pay child support because they care about their children's wellbeing, while others will require government enforcement to insure full compliance. An NCP's willingness to pay will depend on the level of altruism towards his children and on any agreement regarding the level of total expenditures on the children that he can make with his ex-spouse. Thus compliance will be a function of the parent-parent relationship, the parent-child relationship, the minimum award level specified by law, and government enforcement efforts. We use data from the Stanford Child Custody Study and Adolescent Followup and from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Behavior of Youth (NLSY) to provide estimates of the level of parental altruism towards their children and the degree to which greater child support payments are due to self-enforcing agreements, higher child support guidelines or greater government enforcement efforts. The second part of this proposal investigates the effect of the Child Care Tax Credit (CCTC) in the U.S. income tax system on the labor supply decisions of mothers with young children and on the choice of child care. We utilize a household production framework to develop a static model of labor supply and child care choice. The CCTC subsidizes both the number of hours of child care purchased and the per hour cost or price of child care. The subsidy rate differs by the income level of the family. We exploit the price variation caused by this structure to estimate the effect of child care costs on women's labor supply and the choice of hourly expenditures on child care. We also examine the distributional impact of the subsidy. Is there a differential impact of the subsidy by the age of the children, the education of the mother, or the socio- economic status of the family? Finally we incorporate several child care programs that are targeted at the low income population. Our estimation methodology allows us to use our results to do simulations of the effects of various policies on labor supply and child care choice. Data from the 1986, 1988, and 1989 waves of the NLSY are used to estimate the model.

影响儿童福祉的两种人口现象 近几十年来：1）劳动力参与率的提高 有小孩的母亲，导致对质量的担忧， 费用和儿童保育的可用性，以及 2) 离婚率的增加 增加了单身儿童的比例 父母家庭，并导致贫困率上升 孩子们。 该提案描述了两个独立的项目，涉及 这些问题。 该提案的第一部分探讨了儿童之间的关系 支持奖励、非监护父母 (NCP) 支付子女费用的意愿 支持、国家执法努力以及对裁决的遵守。 我们 开发子女抚养费的博弈论讨价还价模型 基于一些 NCP 愿意支付的想法的付款 子女抚养费，因为他们关心孩子的福祉，同时 其他人则要求政府强制执行以确保完全遵守。 NCP 的支付意愿将取决于对他人的利他主义程度 他的孩子以及有关总水平的任何协议 他可以与前配偶一起在孩子上的支出。 因此 遵守情况将取决于父母与父母的关系， 亲子关系、法律规定的最低奖励水平，以及 政府执法力度。 我们使用斯坦福儿童中心的数据 监护研究和青少年随访以及全国纵向调查 青年劳动力市场行为调查（NLSY）提供估计 父母对孩子的利他主义程度和程度 哪些子女抚养费增加是由于自我执行 协议、更高的子女抚养费指导方针或更大的政府 执法力度。 该提案的第二部分调查了儿童的影响 美国所得税制度中针对劳动力供应的护理税收抵免 (CCTC) 有幼儿的母亲的决定以及儿童保育的选择。 我们利用家庭生产框架来开发静态模型 劳动力供给和儿童保育选择。 CCTC 补贴这两个数字 购买儿童保育的小时数以及每小时的儿童费用或价格 关心。 补贴金额因家庭收入水平而异。 我们 利用这种结构引起的价格变化来估计 育儿费用对女性劳动力供给和选择的影响 每小时的儿童保育支出。 我们还检查了分布 补贴的影响。 补贴是否会产生不同的影响 孩子的年龄、母亲的教育程度或社会地位 家庭经济状况？ 最后我们整合了几个儿童保育项目 针对低收入人群的计划。 我们的估计 方法论允许我们使用我们的结果来模拟效果 关于劳动力供应和儿童保育选择的各种政策。 数据来自 NLSY 的 1986 年、1988 年和 1989 年波用于估计模型。