Intra‐Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non‐resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
利用英国家庭追踪调查数据，分析离异或分居父亲的新伴侣收入如何影响其子女抚养费支付，发现父亲收入占比越高，支付抚养费的可能性和金额也越高。
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner's preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner's income would have different impacts on his child support payments if partners' relative incomes affect bargaining power in household decisions. This article exploits within-father variation in the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2005) to estimate the impacts of the intra-household income distribution on child support payments and the father's welfare. We find that a higher share of father's income in household income increases the probability of paying child support and its amount relative to household income. Copyright © 2008 The Author(s).