Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ermisch, John
Author-Name: Pronzato, Chiara
Title: Intra-household allocation of resources: inferences from non-resident fathers’ child support payments
Abstract: A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new
partner’s preferences are likely to put a much lower weight (if any) on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous union. As a consequence, his own and his partner’s 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 father’s income in household income increases the probability of paying child support and its amount relative to household income.

Creation-Date: 20061128
Number: 2006-57
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2006-57.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2006-57