This report identifies and discusses evidence about t o key aspects of the relationship bet
een poverty and child abuse and neglect: the impact of poverty on a child's chance of being …

Child maltreatment is a global problem affecting millions of children and is associated with
an array of cumulative negative outcomes later in life, including unemployment and financial …

OBJECTIVES: Childhood maltreatment is a robust risk factor for poor physical and mental
health. Child welfare youths represent a high-risk group, given the greater likelihood of …

Little is known about the effects of placing children who are abused or neglected into foster
care. This paper uses the placement tendency of child protection investigators as an …

This paper uses the randomization of families to child protection investigators to estimate
causal effects of foster care on adult crime. The analysis uses a new data set that links …

In this study, national register data were used to analyse long‐term outcomes at age 25 for
around 700 Swedish young people placed in out‐of‐home care during their teens. The …

Este estudio es parte de una investigación más amplia sobre la puesta en marcha del plan
de formación para los jóvenes protegidos en acogimiento residencial:«Plan de Preparación …

This paper describes the use of instrumental-variables (IV) to estimate causal effects of
foster care on long-and short-term outcomes. This estimation strategy provides a tool to …

We estimate the causal effect of parental incarceration on children's medium-run outcomes
using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation …

To assess prevalence and odds for teenage parenthood among former child welfare clients,
we used national register data for all children born in Sweden 1972–1983 (n= 1,178,207) …