PSID data extracts for: The effect of child support on fathers’ labor supply

Name: PSID data extracts for: The effect of child support on fathers’ labor supply
Published: 2025-08-08
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Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pinchuan Ong, National University of Singapore

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Project Citation:

Ong, Pinchuan. PSID data extracts for: The effect of child support on fathers’ labor supply. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-08-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E237141V1

Project Description

Summary:

The paper studies the effect of having to pay child support on work incentives in five datasets including the PSID. For identification, I exploit the end of child support when the children involved reach emancipation age. Empirically, child support paid drops to near zero on emancipation (as expected); fathers correspondingly increase their work hours and annual earnings.

The PSID constitutes one of several datasets used in the paper. PSID data extracts are in this repository (to satisfy contractual obligations); other datasets and analysis codes are on the journal replication kit repository.

Funding Sources: National University of Singapore (Start-up Grant A-0003845-00-00); Singapore Ministry of Education (AcRF Tier 1 Grant A-0003317-00-00)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: J12; J22; child support; labor supply; divorce; family economics; frisch elasticity

Geographic Coverage: US

Time Period(s): 1990 – 2017

Collection Date(s): 2017 – 2021

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