We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … maltreatment of young children during hot periods. We rule out that our results are solely due to changes in reporting. Additional …

Children spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long … social services to foster children living in institutions. Using administrative data linked across government registries, we …

economic and social costs for both individuals and societies. Disadvantaged children often fall behind in skills development …

estimates shows that relative to white peers, black children bear more than double the risk in outcomes unfavorable to … larger among households with children than without children, with the child household racial wealth gap in 2019 remaining … forms of investments specifically for black families or children. Based on a contemporary survey, we find that black parents …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects …

race and may be especially applicable when children are temporarily quarantined due to illness …

transfers and state-targeted programs for children in need of care and protection (CNCP) and children in conflict of law (CCL … designed by the government to tackle the capability deprivation, hardships, and vulnerabilities faced by children within the …