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Converting Sentiments to Dollars: Scaling and Incommensurability Problems in the Evaluation of Child Support PaymentsSanford L. BraverArizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology Robert MacCounUniversity of California, Berkeley - School of Law; University of California, Berkeley - Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program; University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy Ira Mark EllmanArizona State University College of Law April 15, 2008 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers Abstract: We examine how ordinary citizens translate intuitions about child welfare and distributive justice into dollar amounts for post-divorce child support payments. Our analyses indicate that child support judgments are quite sensitive to anchoring and question-wording effects. Nevertheless, we find much that is both interpretable and principled in these judgments. For example, the amounts that citizens recommended in an open-ended format ("name") were nearly identical to the amounts other citizens selected from an array of choices in a multiple choice format ("choose").
Number of Pages in PDF File: 41 working papers seriesDate posted: April 16, 2008 ; Last revised: September 9, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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