IRP’s decades-long collaborations with the State of Wisconsin have led to the development of consistent income standards for determining child support awards, multiple policy evaluations of child support policy and practice initiatives, and the collection of an extended and uniquely complete series of court records of child support decisions in select Wisconsin counties.

The Importance of Child Support for Low-Income Families
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Hwa-Ok Park
- Report
- September 2003

Child Support Orders and Payments: Do Lower Orders Result in Higher Payments?
- Mei-Chen Hu and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- March 2003

Medical Support Orders: Potential Fiscal Effects of Matching Wisconsin Insurance and Child Support Data
- Thomas Kaplan and Ingrid Rothe
- Report
- January 2003

Children’s Living Arrangements in Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Placement
- M. L. Krecker, P. Brown, M. S. Melli, and L. Wimer
- Report
- June 2003

Forgiveness of State-Owed Child Support Arrears
- Judith Bartfeld
- Report
- February 2003

Use of Wisconsin’s Child Support Guidelines in Shared Placement Cases
- Steven T. Cook
- Report
- August 2002

Placement Outcomes for Children of Divorce in Wisconsin
- Maria Cancian, Judith Cassetty, Steven T. Cook, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- January 2002

Estimates of Family Expenditures for Children: A Review of the Literature
- Ingrid Rothe, Judith Cassetty, and Elisabeth Boehnen
- Report
- April 2001