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abstract: 'Child support is a critical source of income, especially for the growing
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proportion of children born to unmarried mothers. Current social policy
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supports custodial parent employment (e.g., the Earned Income Tax Credit
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{[}EITC] and other work supports have largely taken the place of an
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entitlement to cash assistance for single mothers of young children).
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Given many single mothers'' limited earnings potential, child support
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from noncustodial fathers is also important. This raises questions about
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the effects of child support on custodial mothers'' labor supply, and
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whether policies that increase child support receipt will thereby
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discourage mothers'' employment. This paper addresses these questions,
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taking advantage of data from a statewide randomized experiment
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conducted in Wisconsin. Unlike previous nonexperimental research, we do
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not find any negative effect of child support on the likelihood to work
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for pay or the number of hours worked in a given week. Recent U.S.
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social welfare policies have focused on increasing both custodial
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mothers'' child support collections and their labor supply. The results
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suggest that these may be compatible policies; the absence of a negative
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labor supply effect strengthens the potential antipoverty effectiveness
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of child support. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
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affiliation: 'Cuesta, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Wisconsin, Sch Social Work, 1180
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Observ Dr, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
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Cuesta, Laura; Cancian, Maria, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA.'
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author: Cuesta, Laura and Cancian, Maria
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author-email: laura.cuesta@gmail.com
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author_list:
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- family: Cuesta
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given: Laura
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- family: Cancian
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given: Maria
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.05.006
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eissn: 1873-7765
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files: []
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issn: 0190-7409
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journal: CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
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keywords: 'Custodial-mother families; Child support receipt; Labor supply effect;
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TANF'
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keywords-plus: INCOME
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language: English
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month: JUL
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number-of-cited-references: '18'
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pages: 49-56
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papis_id: f32b83340b913d46e9b0590e69933f8e
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ref: Cuesta2015effectchild
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times-cited: '9'
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title: The effect of child support on the labor supply of custodial mothers participating
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in TANF
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000356739700006
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '9'
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volume: '54'
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web-of-science-categories: Family Studies; Social Work
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year: '2015'
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