Welfare, Child Support, and Strategic Behavior: Do High Orders and Low Disregards Discourage Child Support Awards?
研究了福利政策中子女抚养费命令的忽略额和金额如何影响父母是否寻求正式抚养费裁决，发现高命令和低忽略额会减少裁决数量。
Qualitative research has documented strategic behavior in response to child support policy. Parents of children on welfare have an incentive to avoid formal child support, since most states limit the amount of formal child support that women on welfare can receive (the disregard) and have relatively high child support orders for low-income fathers. This pa- per develops a simple model to make several predictions about how the disregard and order might interact to influence formal child support or- ders. Using data from the CPS-CSS merged with state child support vari- ables, I find some evidence that higher orders and lower disregards are associated with fewer child support orders.