Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on … measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … limitations of the existing literature on child maltreatment. First, we use a large national sample, and investigate different …

In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically …-related subsidies raise work levels among this group, little is known about the impact of subsidy receipt on child wellbeing. In this … paper, we identify the causal effect of child care subsidies on child development by exploiting geographic variation in the …

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work … find substantial variation in subsidy effects across the BMI distribution. In particular, child care subsidies have no … at the top of the distribution. Our results point to the use of non-parental child care, particularly centerbased …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal … subsidy receipt on child well-being. In this paper, we identify the causal effect of child care subsidies on child development … unintended consequence of a child care subsidy regime that conditions eligibility on parental employment and deemphasizes child …