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 …

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 …