Recent Census Bureau statistics show that women who receive child support payments have higher earnings and work longer hours than women who do not. Does this suggest that child support-unlike all other nonwage income-does not deter work effort, or are women who receive it simply different? We...

Between 1978 and 1985 the mean real value of child support payments due declined 25 percent. In this journal, Philip Robins argued most of this decline was the result of an increase in the ratio of female to male earnings, but we argue his conclusion is based upon an inappropriate use of...