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Variations in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Women and Their Children: The Role of Child Support Income

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  • Andrea H. Beller
  • John W. Graham

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  • Andrea H. Beller & John W. Graham, 1985. "Variations in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Women and Their Children: The Role of Child Support Income," NBER Chapters, in: Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being, pages 471-510, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. David E. Bloom & Cecilia Conrad & Cynthia Miller, 1996. "Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility," NBER Working Papers 5781, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Amy Farmer & Jill Tiefenthaler, 2003. "Strategic Bargaining Over Child Support and Visitation," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 1(3), pages 205-218, September.
    3. Brenda Wyss, 2001. "Gender and cash child support in Jamaica," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 415-439, December.
    4. H. Peters & Laura Argys & Eleanor Maccoby & Robert Mnookin, 1993. "Enforcing divorce settlements: Evidence from child support compliance and award modifications," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 30(4), pages 719-735, November.
    5. Kristin Mammen, 2020. "Children’s Gender and Investments from Nonresident Fathers," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 332-349, June.

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