W-2 Child Support Demonstration Evaluation
Report on Nonexperimental Analyses, March 2002

Principal Investigators: Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian

Volume I: Comparative Summary of Quantitative Nonexperimental and Experimental Analyses

Full text of Volume I (pdf, 1.46 MB)

Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Summary of the Experimental Study
Chapter 3: Summary of the Nonexperimental Study
Chapter 4: Comparing the Experimental and Nonexperimental Studies
Chapter 5: Implications for Research and Policy
References

Volume II: Fathers of Children in W-2 Families

Full text of Volume II (pdf, 4.34 MB)

Executive Summary
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fathers of Children in W-2 Families: Results of an Analysis of Administrative and Survey Data
Chapter 2: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Life Experiences of African American Fathers with Children on W-2

Volume III: Quantitative Nonexperimental Analyses: Background Reports

Full text of Volume III (pdf, 1.01 MB)

Chapter 1: Child Support Disregard Policies and Program Outcomes: An Analysis of Data from the OCSE
Chapter 2: Child Support Disregard Policies and Program Outcomes: An Analysis of the Microdata from the CPS
Chapter 3: Exploring Potential Effects of a Child Support Pass-Through and Disregard: Did Formal Child Support Payments Change When Mothers Went on and off AFDC?