New evidence on the determinants of the gap between child support awards and child support receipts

Social scientists and policymakers have documented dramatic changes in the structure of US families over the past decades. In this paper, I analyze the child support compliance gap- the difference between expected payments and received child support payments- using a unique data set from the 1990-19...

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Main Author: Regina Madalozzo
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2007-12-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-80502007000400003