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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Evidence about the effects of violent crime on victims is sparse, but is necessary to determine the social costs of crime and the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. We present new evidence about the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes,...
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Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...
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We study the effects of prenatal exposure to violent crime on infant health, using New York City crime records linked to mothers' addresses in birth records data. We address endogeneity of assault exposure with three strategies and find that in utero assault exposure significantly increases the...
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