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This paper is about a child support debt forgiveness program, Families Forward, which offered reductions in child support debt in exchange for increased current child support payments.

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Why is it important?

The results provide evidence that offering conditional debt reduction can lead to more and better payment of current child support by non-custodial parents.

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This page is a summary of: Reducing child support debt and its consequences: Can forgiveness benefit all?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, June 2011, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pam.20599.
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