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Does paying child support impoverish fathers in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom?

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  • Hakovirta, Mia
  • Meyer, Daniel R.
  • Skinner, Christine

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The increased frequency of divorce, separation, and nonmarital childbearing over the past several decades has contributed to the rise of parents not living with their children in the same household. These nonresident parents are typically fathers, many of whom are obligated to share the economic responsibility for their children across households by paying child support. This study uses Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) datasets from the year 2013 to study the characteristics of fathers paying support and the relationship between child support and poverty among fathers (and mothers) in Finland, the UK, and the U.S.

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  • Hakovirta, Mia & Meyer, Daniel R. & Skinner, Christine, 2019. "Does paying child support impoverish fathers in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom?," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:106:y:2019:i:c:s019074091930461x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104485
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    1. Lindsey Rose Bullinger, 2021. "Child Support and the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(1), pages 42-77, January.
    2. Carla Arévalo & Jorge Paz, 2024. "Cuota Alimentaria y Pobreza Infantil en la Argentina," Working Papers 305, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    3. Mia Hakovirta & Laura Cuesta & Mari Haapanen & Daniel R. Meyer, 2022. "Child Support Policy across High-Income Countries: Similar Problems, Different Approaches," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 702(1), pages 97-111, July.
    4. Schaubert, Marianna, 2022. "Do courts know how to incentivize? Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    5. Nicole Kapelle & Sergi Vidal, 2020. "Diversity in Family Life Course Patterns and Intra-Cohort Wealth Disparities in Late Working Age," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1092, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    6. Lindsey Rose Bullinger & Sebastian Tello-Trillo, 2021. "Connecting Medicaid and child support: evidence from the TennCare disenrollment," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 785-812, September.
    7. Nicole Kapelle & Sergi Vidal, 2022. "Heterogeneity in Family Life Course Patterns and Intra-Cohort Wealth Disparities in Late Working Age," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 38(1), pages 59-92, March.

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