Evans, Mary F.; Gazze, Ludovica; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … administrative data from state child protective service agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in … analysis identifies neglect as the temperature-sensitive maltreatment type, and we do not find evidence that adaptation via air …