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W-2 Child Support Demonstration Evaluation Phase 1: Final Report
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Meyer, Daniel R. Cancian, Maria Aparecida Eva Investigators, Principal |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Acknowledgments The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance received in preparing this report. We thank Wolf is greatly appreciated. The research presented in this report is the product of the collaborative efforts of a large research team. The Principal Investigators thank our colleagues for their many contributions. We also thank our families, With the introduction of Wisconsin Works (W-2) in 1997, Wisconsin initiated a radically new approach to public assistance for low-income families. W-2 replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program that previously offered cash to low-income, primarily single-parent families. W-2 participants are placed into one of four tiers of a " self-sufficiency ladder. " The two upper tiers, Unsubsidized and Trial (subsidized) Jobs, provide case management and associated programs, but no cash payment. The two lower tiers, Community Service Jobs and W-2 Transitions, provide a cash payment in return for participation in work-like activities. W-2 also contains a unique child support component that is the subject of an experimental evaluation. This report presents the results of the first phase of the W-2 Child Support Demonstration Evaluation (CSDE). It includes results for cases that entered during the first three calendar quarters of the experiment. Future reports will present results of nonexperimental analyses and of experimental results for later-entering cases. Recent welfare reforms have increased the potential importance of child support as an income source for low-income single-parent families. Time limits, work requirements, and the lack of an entitlement to cash assistance have made nonwelfare sources of income essential. In Wisconsin, relatively stringent work requirements have been combined with a uniquely generous approach to child support. Among most mothers participating in W-2, any child support paid on behalf of their children is passed through to them and is disregarded in the calculation of their W-2 cash payments. In contrast, in most other states child support paid on behalf of children receiving cash assistance is kept by the government to offset welfare costs, and the family receives no additional income. To evaluate the impact of the full pass-through, the W-2 child support policy was implemented as a random-assignment experiment. Most W-2 participants received a full pass-through of child support, but a randomly selected control group received a reduced amount. Because assignment to the experimental (full pass-through) and control (partial pass-through) groups was random, any differences in outcomes between the two groups can be attributed to the difference in the treatment … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/csde/publications/phase1/vol1-1a.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/csde/publications/phase1/vol1-1a.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
