Child Support and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults: Changes in the 1980s

by Pedro M. Hernandez

Overview

Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815330028
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/1997
Series:	Children of Poverty
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Figures, List of Tables, Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Review of Literature, Chapter 3. Theory, Chapter 4. Empirical Model I, Chapter 5. Empirical Model II, Chapter 6. Summary and Conclusions, Appendix A. Appendix Tables, Appendix B. Description of the t-test Conducted to Test Whether the Ratio of the Coefficients of Child Support and Other Sources of Family Income in One Year Were Bigger than in Another Year, References, Index

Editorial Reviews

The author uses the theoretical models of human capital and household production to analyze three data sets from 1979, 1984, and 1988 on the effects of changes in child support enforcement legislation during the 1980s. He focuses on the question of whether the characteristics of noncustodial fathers were the cause of high educational attainment. Appropriate for graduate or advanced undergraduate students of the economics and sociology of the family. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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