The Wisconsin Child Support Assurance System: Estimated Effects on Poverty, Labor Supply, Caseloads, and Costs

1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin Garfinkel ◽  
Philip K. Robins ◽  
Pat Wong ◽  
Daniel R. Meyer
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-541
Author(s):  
Ilyar Heydari Barardehi ◽  
Patryk Babiarz ◽  
Teresa Mauldin

Author(s):  
Giam Pietro Cipriani ◽  
Tamara Fioroni

Abstract This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal allocation, because agents do not take into account the externalities of fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first-best allocation by introducing a child allowance scheme and a subsidy to incentivize the labor supply of older workers. As an alternative to subsidizing the elderly labor supply, we show that the first-best allocation can also be achieved by controlling the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social optimum in a market economy could be a Pareto improvement.


1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 632-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Corbett ◽  
Irwin Garfinkel ◽  
Nora Cate Schaeffer

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert I Lerman

With more parents living apart, the societal problem of parents who fail to share with each other or with their children becomes more acute. Although governments have mainly relied on public transfers to address the resulting economic hardships among children, the emphasis has been shifting toward mandatory sharing through the rigorous enforcement of child support laws. This paper first describes the economic context for child support; the expanding federal role in regulating awards and collections; the complex array of incentive and equity effects associated with child support; the record of obtaining support payments from noncustodial parents; and the effects of new award-setting and enforcement policies. Finally, it considers the child support assurance system (CSAS) approach, recently proposed in Congress. Under this plan, the government would make up the difference between some minimum assured payment and the child support actually paid by the non-custodial parent.


1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bingley ◽  
Gauthier Lanot ◽  
Elizabeth Symons ◽  
Ian Walker

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