The Impact of Percentage-Expressed Child Support Orders on Payments
研究将子女抚养费命令表示为非监护父母收入百分比（而非固定金额）对支付的影响，利用威斯康星州21个县的数据发现百分比命令使支付增长更快，但需改进法院监控能力。
This article examines the impacts on child support payments of explicitly indexing orders to noncustodial parents' incomes by expressing orders as a percentage of income rather than as a fixed sum.We use data collected from twenty-one counties in Wisconsin and merged with annual income data from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.We find that payments increase much faster with percentage-expressed than with fixed-sum orders, after controlling for differences between cases which receive the two award types.Collections on behalf of percentage-expressed orders increase because of large increases over time in the amount of the obligation; in comparison, fixed-sum obligations are extremely stable.Further gains may be possible by improving the capacity of the courts to monitor compliance via access to current income information.