Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … investments are made, largely, by a child's mother, and that step mothers are not substitutes for birth mothers in this domain …

We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine trends in child support payments over the past … in marital status composition, changes in men's and women's earnings, and ineffective child support laws. We find that … unilateral divorse--exerted downward pressure on child support payments. Throughout this time period, child support policies were …

We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child … investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study … income. We find that in those households in which a child is raised by an adoptive, step or foster mother, less is spent on …