Child support and educational outcomes: Evidence from the British household panel survey

Arbeitspapier

There is some evidence to support the view that Child Support (CS), despite low compliance rates and a strong interaction with the welfare system, has played a positive role in reducing child poverty among non-intact families. However, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in non-intact families from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we find that CS received has an effect which is at least 10 times as large as that associated with variations in other sources of total household net income for two key educational outcomes: namely school leaving at the age of 16, and attaining 5 or more good GCSEs. We show that this remarkable and strong result is robust and, in particular, can be given a causal interpretation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Department of Economics Discussion Paper ; No. 08,11

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Thema: parental separation ; parental incomes ; child support ; educational outcomes ; Familie ; Niedrigeinkommen ; Sozialhilfe ; Familienleistungsausgleich ; Kinder ; Bildungsertrag ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Kent, Department of Economics
• (wo): Canterbury
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50628
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ