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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289970
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960109
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Family Structure Changes and Children´s Health, Behavior, and Educational Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2009
More and more children do not grow up in traditional nuclear fam- ilies. Instead, they grow up in single-parent households or in fami- lies with a step-parent. Hence, it is important to improve our under- standing of the impact of "shocks" in family structure due to parental relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628205
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Child support and educational outcomes: Evidence from the British household panel survey
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277855
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Do Dads matter? Or is it just their money that matters? Unpicking the effects of separation on educational outcomes by and
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007
The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have attempted to separate out the effects of one parent (mostly the father)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113029
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer Louise; Sun, … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984585
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098448
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … outcomes are better for children who live farther away from their non-residential parent, but that distance is not related to …, not be advantageous. -- child outcomes ; parental separation ; distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656608