Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Poverty.
Female-headed families have among the highest poverty rates of any major demographic group in the United States. The purpose of this paperis to investigate empirically the effectiveness of current child-support enforcement policies and to determine their role in reducing poverty and welfare dependency. A special supplement to the April 1982 Current Population Survey provides the data for the analysis. The results indicate that child support enforce-ment may represent an effective means for re-ducing welfare program costs but isunlikely to have a dramatic effect on either welfare de-pendency or poverty. Copyright 1986 by American Economic Association.
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1986
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Authors: | Robins, Philip K |
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American Economic Review. - American Economic Association - AEA. - Vol. 76.1986, 4, p. 768-88
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American Economic Association - AEA |
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