Daniel R. Meyer

Professor of Social Work
3434 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-7336
dmeyer@ssc.wisc.edu


Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
Daniel Meyer is co-PI with Maria Cancian for the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation (CSDE), an evaluation of the child support pass-through feature of Wisconsin’s welfare policy. Building on Wisconsin’s experimentally-oriented welfare reforms, the CSDE has produced path-breaking research on the effect of social policy on fertility, marriage and cohabitation, as well as on the well-being of children and families. In their own research, Meyer and Cancian have studied patterns of multiple-partner fertility, the earnings and incomes of women who have received welfare and the implications of child support and custody for the well-being of divorced and never-married families. They have documented dramatic changes in children’s post-divorce living arrangements, the growing importance of child support income for low income women, and the effects of related policy changes. Meyer also studies international family policy approaches, particularly child support programs.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Fertility/Families and Households
Data and Methodology