全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w29922
来源ID	Working Paper 29922
	Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
	E. Jason Baron; Max Gross
发表日期	2022-04-11
出版年	2022
语种	英语
摘要	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 welfare investigators and administrative data from Michigan, we show that foster care placement substantially reduced the chances of adult arrests, convictions, and incarceration for children at the margin. Exploring mechanisms, we find that foster care also improved a range of children's safety, academic, and behavioral intermediate outcomes. A likely reason for children's improvements is that their birth parents made positive changes, as most children in our setting reunified with their parents after a short stay in foster care. In light of recent historic federal policy which prioritizes keeping children with their families, our analysis indicates that safely reducing foster care caseloads will require improving efforts to ensure child wellbeing in the home.
主题	Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Law and Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w29922
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587595
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	E. Jason Baron,Max Gross. Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators. 2022.

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