Parental responses to child support obligations: Evidence from administrative data

Rossin‐Slater, Maya; Wüst, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.06.003

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“…Turning to the universal breadwinner models, Denmark has only one cut-off point when considering equal shared care, expressed in percentage of time. Rather than reducing the child support amount, the Danish scheme annuls the support order altogether (Rossin-Slater and Wüst, 2016). The Dutch Tremanorms consider the average number of days per week a child stays with the paying parent when determining the child support order, with the threshold for reduction set at one day.…”

Section: Shared Carementioning

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Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

Claessens

Mortelmans

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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The increasing prevalence of shared care and complex families is challenging traditional approaches to child support determination based on the ‘classic’ two-parent, sole custody, post-divorce family. This article provides a comparative analysis of how these challenges are being addressed in the child support schemes of eight different countries and evaluates these approaches in the light of family policies on gender equality in family care. We find great diversity in the incorporation of shared care and complex families, which is not clearly connected to existing ideal typical policy models on gendered family care. However, child support schemes, at least partially, seem to translate into assumptions concerning gender roles and general policy aims concerning gender equality. In order to better understand how countries accommodate the challenges arising from the modern post-separation family, gender equality seems a vital consideration to take into account.

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Section: Shared Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

Claessens

Mortelmans

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Walker and Zhu (2006) find that a higher level of child support in the UK reduces dissolution risk among intact couples. Using Danish register data and exploiting discontinuities in child support guidelines, Rossin-Slater and W€ ust (2016) find that higher child support payments cause lower labour force participation from fathers, and higher newpartner fertility.…”

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The Impact of Child Support on the Household Income and Labour Supply of Payee Lone Mothers

Fisher¹

2017

Economic Record

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One objective of child support schemes is to reduce the reliance of lone parents on government transfers. I estimate the effect of receiving child support on the household income and labour market activity of payee lone mothers in Australia. I use variation in the amount of child support received driven by the employment status of the paying parent, and find that receiving any child support reduces government transfers, increases labour force participation, and increases household income in excess of the amount of child support received. Increasing the amount of child support received does not decrease the employment rate or hours worked of lone mothers.

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“…Denmark has an advanced social welfare system. Various free-of-charge social programmes are available and equitable to single parents, as well as to children with special needs (30). Those social support systems may lessen the adverse health consequences caused by parental separation.…”

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The association between parental separation during childhood and obesity in adulthood: a Danish twin study

Petersen

Kyvik

Heitmann

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Obesity Science & Practice

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SummaryObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine if parental separation during childhood is associated with obesity in adulthood.MethodsA co‐twin case–control study of 146 adult same‐sexed twin pairs with discordant body mass index (BMI) (i.e. one of the twins should have a BMI of 20–25 kg/m2, and the co‐twin's BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) was selected from Danish Twin Registry (DTR). In total of 236 eligible twin individuals participated in the study. Childhood parental separation (defined as separation from one of the biological parents, regardless of the reason for separation) for at least one year prior to age 17 was self‐reported. The statistical analysis includes logistic and linear regression models using STATA 13.0.ResultsThere were no differences in the odds of developing obesity in adulthood between the twin who stayed with a father and the co‐twin who was separated from him for at least 1 year prior to age 17 [OR = 1.22, 95%CI (0.46–3.34), p = 0.65]. Separation from a mother also showed no differences in the odds for developing obesity [OR = 0.90, 95%CI (0.32–2.46), p = 0.82].ConclusionsBecause of the limited number of discordant twin pairs for childhood parental separation, we cannot provide evidence to suggest that separation from parents in childhood was associated with developing obesity in adulthood. Further studies of pooling discordant twins from several countries should be considered.

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Parental responses to child support obligations: Evidence from administrative data

Cited by 10 publications

References 59 publications

Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

The Impact of Child Support on the Household Income and Labour Supply of Payee Lone Mothers

The association between parental separation during childhood and obesity in adulthood: a Danish twin study

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