Parental responses to child support obligations: Evidence from administrative data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rossin-Slater, Maya; Wust, Miriam
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.06.003
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 183-196
• 关键词: Child support; FAMILY; divorce; parents; Father involvement; fertility; labor supply

摘要

We study parental responses to child support obligations using rich administrative data from Denmark and variation in the child support formula. We estimate that a 1000 DICK ($160) increase in a father's obligation is associated with a 273 DKK ($45) increase in his payment. A higher obligation reduces father-child co-residence, pointing to substitution between financial and non-pecuniary investments. Further, obligations increase post-separation fertility among remarried fathers, but have no impacts on maternal fertility or either parent's labor supply. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child investments through mandates on parents can be complicated by their behavioral responses to them. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.