Rationalizing Child Support Decisions

Daniela Del Boca · Christopher J. Flinn

91 citations0/0 files storedRePEc: Research Papers in Economics

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Family Dynamics and Relationships Family and Matrimonial Law Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Abstract

The authors provide a framework within which the child-support compliance decisions of noncustodial fathers and the child-support awards set by institutional agents can be coherently interpreted. The model of child-support transfers is able to capture qualitatively the features of the monthly payment distribution. Estimated parental-decision rules are used to infer the implicit weights given by institutional agents to the postdivorce welfare of parents and children. The authors find that the weight attached to the combined welfare of the custodial mother and child is significantly less than the weight given to the father's welfare in most sample cases. Copyright 1995 by American Economic Association.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 91 citations exist upstream.

References

1980Marriage and Household Decision-Making: A Bargaining Analysis 1981Nash-Bargained Household Decisions: Toward a Generalization of the Theory of Demand 1988Rational Household Labor Supply 1979Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce 1985Children as Collective Goods and Divorce Settlements 1992Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality 1984The Impact of Marital Dissolution on Income and Consumption in Single-Parent Households

Cited by

2000Economic Analysis of Social Interactions 2014Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation 2005Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts 2011Endogenous household interaction 2009The Effects of In‐Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence 2000The Increasing Complexity of Family Relationships: Lifetime Experience of Lone Motherhood and Stepfamilies in Great Britain

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.