It is not unusual for researchers as well as laypersons to refer to the behaviour of non-custidial parents who comply with legally-determined child support obligations as "cooperative", event though this term would not typically be appropirate from the perspective of formal models of expenditures on public goods [the children in this case]. We develop a model in which compliance with child support orders is ynonymous with cooperative behaviour.
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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number
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