This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the …

We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county … Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik instrument. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate causes a …

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …, parental unemployment can also have a positive effect depending on the age and gender of the child. Our results are robust even …