Irwin Garfinkel

TL;DR: The authors found that states with more effective child support enforcement have significantly lower welfare caseloads, and that individual child support variables may not be good indicators of state CSE vigor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic efficiency of income testing is analyzed, including distortions of household behavior and the total administrative costs of the tax-transfer system, and the conditions under which the CIT is more efficient than a comparable NIT are presented.

TL;DR: Poverty rates have dropped by 40 % when measured using a historical anchored SPM over the same period, and results obtained from comparing poverty rates using a pretax/pretransfer measure of resources versus a post-tax/post-transfer measure of Resources further show that government policies, not market incomes, are driving the declines observed over time.

TL;DR: Results suggest that dads’ formal and informal child support payments and contact with their children independently reduce the number of hardships in the mothers’ households; however, only the impact of fathers’ contact with children is robust in models that include lagged dependent variables or individual fixed effects.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that women living in states with more effective child support enforcement are less likely to bear children when unmarried, especially if they are young, never-married, or black.