Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,391
Cover Image
Economics of foster care
Bald, Anthony; Doyle, Joseph J.; Gross, Max; Jacob, … - In: The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the … 36 (2022) 2, pp. 223-246
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206498
Cover Image
Economics of Foster Care
Bald, Anthony; Doyle, Joseph J, Jr; Gross, Max; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191000
Cover Image
Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
Baron, E. Jason; Gross, Max - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191017
Cover Image
Immigration enforcement and foster care placements
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported and unable to care for them. We find that the average increase in interior immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672760
Cover Image
Higher performance with increased risk of undesirable outcomes : the dilemma of U.S. child welfare services privatization
Elgin, Dallas J.; Carter, David P. - In: Public management review 22 (2020) 11, pp. 1603-1623
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312799
Cover Image
Child care in the United States : markets, policy, and evidence
Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369000
Cover Image
Child Care Subsidies as Social Policy
Blau, David M. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 3-7
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696448
Cover Image
Preschoolers enrolled and mothers at work? : The effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760144
Cover Image
Child care subsidies and child development
Herbst, Chris M. (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2008
of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778467
Cover Image
Child care subsidies and child development
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778764