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Child support enforcement in West Virginia
… is an exploratory examination of trends in child support enforcement before and after the implementation of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and to determine whether West Virginia is keeping up with the national average of child support …
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Child support enforcement and welfare dependency
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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The child support "tax" : determining the effect of child support on the income growth of noncustodial parents
<p>This study examines the role of child support in determining income growth. Using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model with state-level fixed effects applied to panel data from the National Study of Families and Households (NSFH), I find that having a legal agreement to pay child support has a …
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Parents on trial : jailing for child support nonpayment
Although the child support enforcement and criminal justice systems have divergent purposes, they are connected when courts jail parents who owe child support debt. Jailing for child support nonpayment is one of many possible mechanisms of child support enforcement, but little is known about how …
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The relationship between child support grant and teenage pregnancy
This study examined the relationship between the Child Support Grant (CSG) and teenage pregnancy. The first objective of the study was to establish the relationship, if any, between teenage pregnancy and the Child Support Grant. The second objective was to determine whether or not the variable of …
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The Cost of Child Support: Policy Design and Father Identity
<p>Child support policy is one of the key forces in the lives of families in the U.S., where 1 in 4 children and half of African American children live apart from their fathers (Carlson et al., 2017; Grall, 2020; U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). Most unmarried fathers of newborns express a strong desire …
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Child support enforcement policy : effects on families and the welfare system
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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The Impact of Child Support Payments on the Educational Attainment of Children
… effect on the educational attainment of children. This study also examines how the receipt of child support affects the educational attainment of children. The theoretical framework for this study draws on two areas: human capital acquisition and household production theory. The study is …
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Challenges facing the recipients of the child support grant in the Umhlathuze Municipality
… the challenges facing the recipients of child support grant with special reference to uMhlathuze District Municipality. The government in its efforts to alleviate poverty, to the previously disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of our communities introduced several poverty alleviation …
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Essays on Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement: Evidence From State Administrative Data
… cutback in welfare benefits, state-initiated child support enforcement has gained increasing attention as a policy alternative for the poor single-parent households. This dissertation assesses the effect of child support enforcement on low-income families under the 1996 reform. Administrative …
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Exploration of the child support grant in a community of the North West Province
The child support grant (hereafter referred to as CSG) in South Africa was implement in 1998 to fight child poverty. The CSG came after the state maintenance grant (SMG) was repelled, because it (SMG) only benefited certain races. Section 27(c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, …
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Low-income non-custodial fathers and child support enforcement: The policy of promoting fathering through financial obligation
… a secondary analysis on The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study's dataset of non-residential father involvement with their child during their five-year follow-up. Using child support status, reason for nonresidential status, relationship with mother, and income level as independent …
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Is South Africa's social protection system addressing the causes or the symptoms of poverty? : the case of the Child Support Grant
… means of poverty reduction. Focusing on the Child Support Grant (CSG), empirical analysis is then applied to examine whether the underlying causes of poverty are being addressed. Using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 1 Dataset, the effects of the CSG on households' expenditure …
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Using the Child Support Grant to advance the socio-economic rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa : a critical reflection
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-102).
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Cash transfers and child health: understanding the barriers and facilitators to early application and receipt of the child support grant in Langa Township, Cape Town
The Child Support Grant (CSG) is increasingly a social protection instrument of choice aimed at alleviating child poverty and malnutrition in South Africa, with over 13 million children as beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant (CSG). Timely receipt of the grant, within the first three months of …
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Ramification of Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 intentions, on social relief programme based on Child Support Grant at Ha-Mutsha Area in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
The child-support grant is one of the social assistance programmes, aimed at alleviating poverty. It is guided by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Act 09 of 2004 and Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004. Social assistance programmes have created dependency on government and the …
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A study of state-based social assistance provision and its influence on the developmental character of the South African State: the case of the child support grant
… social assistance provision, in the form of Child Support Grant (CSG), influences the character of a developmental state. Social assistance provision is understood to be part of a developmental state response to the needs of its citizens. I have argued in this thesis that CSG influences the …
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