Argys L M, Peters H E, Brooks-Gunn J, Smith J R
Department of Economics, University of Colorado-Denver 80217-3364, USA.
Demography. 1998 May;35(2):159-73.
We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child data to address three questions. First, does the receipt of child support have beneficial effects for children with absent fathers apart from increasing income? Second, do the effects of child support differ when child-support awards and payments are made cooperatively as opposed to being court ordered? Third, are any positive effects of child support solely a product of unmeasured differences among fathers and families? Controlling for the socioeconomic characteristics of the child and family, we find some evidence that receipt of child support has a positive impact on children's cognitive test scores over and above its contribution to total income. However, the effects vary by test, by race, and by reason for father's absence. Our results also indicate that the distinction between cooperative and noncooperative awards is important. Finally, our instrumental variables estimates show that the effects of child support persist after we control for unobserved characteristics of fathers and families.
我们使用“全国青年纵向调查-儿童数据”来回答三个问题。第一，除了增加收入外，获得子女抚养费对父亲缺席家庭的孩子是否有有益影响？第二，与法庭判决相比，通过合作方式做出子女抚养裁决和支付抚养费时，其效果是否有所不同？第三，子女抚养费的任何积极影响是否仅仅是父亲和家庭之间未测量差异的产物？在控制了儿童和家庭的社会经济特征后，我们发现有一些证据表明，获得子女抚养费对儿童的认知测试成绩有积极影响，且这种影响超出了其对家庭总收入的贡献。然而，影响因测试、种族以及父亲缺席的原因而异。我们的结果还表明，合作裁决与非合作裁决之间的区别很重要。最后，我们的工具变量估计表明，在控制了父亲和家庭的未观察特征后，子女抚养费的影响依然存在。
