A Note on the Antipoverty Effectiveness of Child Support among Mother-Only Families
基于1995年当前人口调查数据，分析子女抚养费、社会保险和福利对单亲母亲家庭的减贫效果，发现子女抚养费使6-7%的贫困家庭脱贫，效果与社会保险和福利相当，且其减贫效果呈增长趋势。
The Current Population Survey is used to examine the antipoverty effectiveness of child support, social insurance, and welfare among motheronly families in 1995. Child support brought about 6-7 percent of pretransfer poor mother-only families over the poverty line, an effect similar to that of social insurance and welfare. A brief trend analysis shows that child support's antipoverty effectiveness has been growing. Some potential reasons why child support's effect is still so small in the face of substantial changes in child support policy are hypothesized.