Betson, David; Evenhouse, Eirik; Reilly, Siobhan; … - In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 11 (1992) 1, pp. 1-20
Recent U.S. federal legislation required states to establish mandatory judicial guidelines for the setting of child-support awards. An equivalence-based approach is used to compare three formulae (two in use, one proposed) to three theoretical benchmarks, to clarify unavoidable trade-offs in the...