The Effect of Additional Child Support Income on the Risk of Child Maltreatment
The Effect of Additional Child Support Income on the Risk of Child Maltreatment
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DOI：
10.1086/671929
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
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2
通讯作者：
Slack, Kristen Shook
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作者：
Cancian, Maria;Yang, Mi-Youn;Slack, Kristen Shook
2010年，美国约有600万儿童被报告为儿童福利系统面临虐待或忽视儿童的风险。研究人员和政策制定者长期以来一直认识到，与来自较高社会经济阶层的儿童相比，生活在经济资源有限家庭的儿童遭受虐待的风险更高，但收入，特别是儿童抚养费对虐待风险的因果效应一直难以确定；许多相同的因素与儿童抚养费水平、贫困和儿童虐待风险有关。本研究采用随机分配实验，探讨了完全传递和忽视儿童支持对虐待儿童风险的因果作用。我们发现，与部分子女抚养费传递相比，完整的子女抚养费传递降低了虐待儿童的风险。
About 6 million children were reported to the child welfare system as being at risk of child abuse or neglect in the United States in 2010. Researchers and policy makers have long recognized that children living in families with limited economic resources are at higher risk for maltreatment than children from higher socioeconomic strata, but the causal effect of income, and particularly child support, on maltreatment risk has been challenging to establish; many of the same factors are associated with child support payment levels, poverty, and child maltreatment risk. Using a random assignment experiment that led to exogenous differences in child support received, the present analysis explores the causal role of a full pass-through and disregard of child support on the risk of child maltreatment. We find that a full child support pass-through, as compared to a partial pass-through, reduces the risk of child maltreatment.