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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

Fatherhood Initiatives: Connecting Fathers to Their Children

Report

This Congressional Research Service report explores the involvement of child support enforcement in fatherhood programs and discusses initiatives to promote and support father-child interaction outside the parents’ relationship. The report also…

Poor, unemployed, and without cash assistance: Characteristics, circumstances, and survival strategies of disconnected families

Conference Paper

This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency contains a breakout session focusing on disconnected families--those in which adults are neither working nor receiving cash assistance. Panelists discussed the…

The Effect of Child Support on the Labor Supply of Custodial Mothers Participating in TANF

Journal Article

Child support is a critical source of income, especially for the growing population of children born to unmarried mothers. Given many single mothers’ limited earnings potential, child support from non-custodial fathers is also important. This paper…

The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency Project: Applying behavioral economics principles to child support programs

Conference Paper

Insights from behavioral economics, which combines findings from psychology and economics, suggest that an improved understanding of human behavior and decision-making could inform program design and improve outcomes. OPRE’s Behavioral…

Child well-being and noncustodial fathers

This report displays and discusses some of the data related to the poverty of children and their living arrangements and data on male employment and earnings, educational attainment, and incarceration. It then provides information on federal…

Piloting a community approach to Healthy Marriage Initiatives in five sites: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lexington, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Denver, Colorado

Report

In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) instituted the Community…

Does Debt Discourage Employment and Payment of Child Support? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Report

While the child support program has been recently successful in supporting low-income single parents, many single parents still do not receive child support. Child support can often be a vital financial resource for families in poverty. In this…

Pathways to Early School Success: Helping the Most Vulnerable Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families

Research-To-Practice Brief

From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this article highlights effective programs, policy opportunities, and other strategies to improve educational outcomes for children. This brief is to inform policymakers and other stakeholders on…

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