(From Focus 16:1, Spring 1994)

Publications on Child Support Using the Wisconsin Court Record Data

Bartfeld, Judi, and Irwin Garfinkel. "Utilization and Effects on Payments of
Percentage-Expressed Child Support Orders." Institute for Research on Poverty,
Special Report #55, University of Wis-consin-Madison, 1992.

Bartfeld, Judi, and Daniel R. Meyer. "The Use of  Im-mediate Income
Withholding from 1988-1991." Report submitted to the Wisconsin Department of
Health and Social Services, May 1993.

____________. "Are There Really Dead-Beat Dads?  The Relationship between
Enforcement, Ability to Pay, and Compliance in Nonmarital Child Support
Cases." Forthcoming in Social Service Review.

Danziger, Sandra K., and Ann Nichols-Casebolt. "Child Support in Paternity
Cases." Social Service Review 64 (1990), 458-74.

Garfinkel, Irwin, and Marieka M. Klawitter. "The Effect of Routine Income
Withholding of Child Support Collections." Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management 9 (1990), 155-77.

Garfinkel, Irwin, Sara S. McLanahan, and Philip K. Robins, eds. Child Support
Assurance. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1992.

Garfinkel, Irwin, and Marygold Melli, eds. "Child Support: Weaknesses of the
Old and Features of a Proposed New System."  Institute for Research on
Poverty, Special Report #32A, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982.

Garfinkel, Irwin, Daniel R. Meyer, and Gary D. Sandefur. "The Effects of
Alternative Child Support Systems on Blacks, Hispanics, and Non-Hispanic
Whites." Social Service Review 66, no. 4 (1992), 505-23.

Garfinkel, Irwin, Philip K. Robins, Pat Wong, and Daniel R. Meyer. "The
Wisconsin Child Support Assurance System: Estimated Effects on Poverty, Labor
Supply, Caseloads, and Costs." Journal of Human Resources 25 (1990), 1-31.

Klawitter, Marieka M. "Child Support Awards and the Earnings of Divorced
Fathers."  Forthcoming in Social Service Review.

Klawitter, Marieka M., and Irwin Garfinkel. "Child Support, Routine Income
Withholding, and Post-divorce Income for Divorced Mothers and Their Children."
Contemporary Policy Issues 10, no. 1 (1992), 52-64.

Melli, Marygold S., and Judi Bartfeld. "Use of the Percentage-of-Income
Standard to Set Child Support: Experience in Twenty Counties, September
1987-December 1989." Report submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Health
and Social Services, June 1991.

Melli, Marygold S., and Leslie McCall. "The Use of the Percentage of Income
Standard to Set Child Support in Wisconsin: An Update." Report submitted to
the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, June 1993.

Meyer, Daniel R. "Supporting Children Born Outside of Marriage:  Do Child
Support Awards Keep Pace with Changes in Fathers' Incomes?" Institute for
Research on Poverty, Discussion Paper #1026-93, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.

____________. "Child Support and Welfare Dynamics: Evidence from Wisconsin." 
Demography 30, no. 1 (1993), 45-62.

Meyer, Daniel R., and Judi Bartfeld. "The Effects of the Immediate Withholding
of Child Support on Collections over Time." Institute for Research on Poverty,
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Final report to the Wisconsin Department of
Health and Social Services, June 1992.

____________. "How Routine is 'Routine' Withholding? Evidence from Wisconsin."
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Mad-ison: Final
report to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, June 1992.

____________. "Cases Eligible for Child Support in Wisconsin, 1980-1990."
Report submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services,
June 1993.

____________. "An Assessment of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Fixed,
Percentage-Expressed, and Hybrid Child Support Orders."  Final report
submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, January
1994.

____________. "The Relationship between Compliance with Child Support Orders,
Enforcement Tools, and Ability to Pay in Divorce Cases."  Manuscript in
process.

Meyer, Daniel R., Judi Bartfeld, and Kathleen Kost. "Fixed,
Percentage-Expressed, and Hybrid Child Support Orders in Wisconsin." Report
submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, 1993.

Meyer, Daniel R., Thomas Corbett, and Kathleen Kost. "The Wisconsin Child
Support Order Revision Project: Final Report." Manuscript in process.

Phillips, Elizabeth, and Irwin Garfinkel. "Income Growth among Nonresident
Fathers: Evidence from Wisconsin." Demography 30 (1993), 227-41.

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, Judith A. Seltzer, and Marieka Klawitter. "Estimating
Nonresponse and Response Bias: Resident and Nonresident Parents' Reports about
Child Support." Sociological Methods and Research 20, no. 1 (1991), 30-59.

Seltzer, Judith A. "Legal and Physical Custody Arrangements in Recent
Divorces." Social Science Quarterly 71 (1990), 250-66.

____________. "Legal Custody Arrangements and Children's Economic Welfare."
American Journal of Sociology 96, no. 4 (1991), 895-929.

Seltzer, Judith A., and Irwin Garfinkel. "Inequality in Divorce Settlements:
An Investigation of Property Settlements and Child Support Awards." Social
Science Research 19 (1990), 82-111.

Seltzer, Judith A., Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Hong-wen Charng. "Family Ties
after Divorce: The Relationship between Visiting and Paying Child Support."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 51 (1989), 1013-31.