This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

reducing these delays in order to evaluate its effects on child well-being. Mi Abogado (My Lawyer) provides legal aid and … services can improve child well-being …

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 …

variables (IV) methods are inconsistent with OLS findings. Child-specific and family-specific fixed effects models suggest that …

Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … investments are made, largely, by a child's mother, and that step mothers are not substitutes for birth mothers in this domain …