Parental Responses to Child Support Obligations: Evidence from Administrative Data

Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

No 22227, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We leverage non-linearities in Danish child support guidelines and rich administrative data to provide causal estimates of parental behavioral responses to child support obligations. We estimate that a 1,000 DKK ($149) increase in a father's obligation is associated with a 506 DKK ($75) increase in his payment. A higher obligation also reduces father-child co-residence, pointing to substitution between financial and non-pecuniary investments. Further, obligations increase parental post-separation fertility, and reduce labor supply among high-income fathers. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child investments through mandates on parents can be complicated by their behavioral responses to them.

JEL-codes: H40 I30 J12 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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Published as Maya Rossin-Slater & Miriam Wüst, 2018. "Parental responses to child support obligations: Evidence from administrative data," Journal of Public Economics, vol 164, pages 183-196.

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