Can Adequate Child Support be Legislated? Responses to Guidelines and Enforcement.
This article explores the relationship between noncustodial parents' willingness to pay child support, state child support guidelines and enforcement efforts, and child support awards and subsequent compliance. Our game theoretic model, which distinguishes cases of asymmetric information from cases...
| Published in: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 463 - 480 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 2003
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