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The Labor Supply Response Of Twenty-Year Families In The Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, Philip K. Robbins
The Labor Supply Response Of Twenty-Year Families In The Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, Philip K. Robbins
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This paper presents results of an analysis of the labor supply response of 20-year families in the Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The results indicate that 20-year husbands and wives do not reduce their labor supply relative to control families while 20-year single female heads of families reduce their labor supply by about the same amount as similar families on the 3- and 5-year programs. The results suggest that the limited duration of the 3- and 5-year experiments may not have caused major biases in the estimated treatment effects, although the imprecise estimates resulting from the small sample sizes of the …
Receipt Of Child Support By Single-Parent Families, Philip K. Robins, Katherine P. Dickinson
Receipt Of Child Support By Single-Parent Families, Philip K. Robins, Katherine P. Dickinson
Economics Articles and Papers
Recent attempts to reduce welfare dependency have centered on collecting child support from absent parents. In this paper, data from a supplement to the April 1979 Current Population Survey are used to examine several issues related to child support. One important finding concerns the lack of a formal child-support obligation for a large number of single-parent families. Establishing such an obligation, maintaining stable, secure incomes for absent fathers, and liberalizing custody arrangements appear to be the major policies required to increase child-support collections for single-parent families.