We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … administrative data from state child protective service agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in …

Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child … protective services in 2022. Reducing child maltreatment is a national health objective given the substantial, negative … disorders are strongly associated with child maltreatment. In this study, we use administrative data over the period 2004 to …

most current economic research on the long run benefits. We conclude with a discussion of why the rate of child poverty in …