TY - JOUR T1 - Child Support Enforcement and Welfare Caseloads JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 108 LP - 134 DO - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.1.108 VL - XXXIX IS - 1 AU - Chien-Chung Huang AU - Irwin Garfinkel AU - Jane Waldfogel Y1 - 2004/01/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/1/108.abstract N2 - Although there is a large body of research devoted to the issue of the determinants of welfare caseloads, none of these studies has incorporated the effects of child support enforcement (CSE). We employ annual state panel data from 1980 to 1999 and find that states with more effective CSE have significantly lower welfare caseloads. The improvement in CSE over this period reduces welfare caseloads by about 9 percent in 1999. We also discover that individual child support variables may not be good indicators of state CSE vigor and that a CSE index that includes multiple dimensions of CSE is more likely to capture the multiplicative functions of CSE. ER -