Child protection and child outcomes: Measuring the effects of foster care
Child protection and child outcomes: Measuring the effects of foster care
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DOI：
10.1257/aer.97.5.1583
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Doyle, Joseph J., Jr.
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作者：
Doyle, Joseph J., Jr.
关于将被虐待或被忽视的儿童送入寄养中心的影响，人们知之甚少。本文使用儿童保护调查员的安置倾向作为工具变量，以确定寄养对伊利诺伊州儿童长期结果(包括青少年犯罪、青少年母亲和就业)的因果影响，在伊利诺伊州，轮换分配过程有效地将家庭随机分配给调查员。大量的边际治疗效果估计表明，在解释时要谨慎，但结果表明，处于安置边缘的儿童在呆在家里时往往会有更好的结果，特别是年龄较大的儿童。
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 instrumental variable to identify causal effects of foster care on long-term outcomes-including juvenile delinquency, teen motherhood, and employment-among children in Illinois where a rotational assignment process effectively randomizes families to investigators. Large marginal treatment effect estimates suggest caution in the interpretation, but the results suggest that children on the margin of placement tend to have better outcomes when they remain at home, especially older children.