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 …

We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county … level. We use a new administrative dataset containing every report of child abuse and neglect made to the Child Protective …

Child maltreatment is pervasive, often undetected, yet harmful. We investigate whether it is impacted by unemployment … by leveraging unique administrative data including all reported cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States …