Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Poverty
利用1982年4月当前人口调查的补充数据，实证检验子女抚养费执行政策在减少贫困和福利依赖方面的有效性，发现其能降低福利成本但对减少贫困和依赖作用有限。
Female-headed families have among the highest poverty rates of any major demographic group in the United States. The purpose of this paperis to investigate empirically the effectiveness of current child-support enforcement policies and to determine their role in reducing poverty and welfare dependency. A special supplement to the April 1982 Current Population Survey provides the data for the analysis. The results indicate that child support enforce-ment may represent an effective means for re-ducing welfare program costs but isunlikely to have a dramatic effect on either welfare de-pendency or poverty. Copyright 1986 by American Economic Association.