Working to Avoid Incarceration: Jail Threat and Labor Market Outcomes for Noncustodial Fathers Facing Child Support Enforcement

Child support enforcement is among several contexts in which work requirements are enforced by incarceration for noncompliance. Rather than creating barriers to employment, such incarceration threats may pressure subjects to work more, under worse conditions. We test for this using Fragile Families...

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Main Authors: Noah Zatz, Michael A. Stoll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2020-03-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/6/1/55