Child Support Transfers under Family Complexity

Terry-Ann Craigie
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Terry-Ann Craigie: Princeton University

No 1276, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: When parents engage in childbearing with more than one partner or multi-partnered fertility, this gives rise to a complex family system with strong implications for transfers to children. This study therefore seeks to measure the effect of multi-partnered fertility on formal and informal child support transfers, specifically to non-marital children. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the study goes beyond previous works by attempting to isolate causal effects of male and female multi-partnered fertility. I find that in general, the probability of receiving formal and/or informal child support contributions decline as the number of children a parent has with more than one partner rises. The study confirms a causal adverse effect of male multi-partnered fertility on receiving any child support payments. These findings underscore the need to revisit child support policies for complex families.

Keywords: multi-partnered fertility; child support payments; childbearing; fertility; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J J1 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
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