Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91994 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2006-57
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partners preferences are likely to put a much lower weight (if any) on expenditures on the mans children from his previous union. As a consequence, his own and his partners income would have different impacts on his child support payments if partners relative incomes affect bargaining power in household decisions. This paper exploits within-father variation in the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2003) to estimate the impacts of partners incomes on child support payments. We find that a higher share of fathers income in household income increases the probability of paying child support and its amount relative to household income.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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