Economic analysis of child maltreatment and child protection

该项目旨在调查虐待儿童的经济原因和后果。它希望通过将微观计量经济学方法应用于跟踪儿童健康、教育和福利收入的大型澳大利亚行政数据库，从而产生新的知识。该项目的预期成果包括扩大关于经济冲击如何影响虐待的知识基础，将儿童置于家庭外照料的经济后果，以及经济政策对减少虐待代际传播的价值。这将带来重大好处，例如为决策者和服务提供者提供实际证据，帮助防止虐待儿童并减少其危害。

This project aims to investigate the economic causes and consequences of child maltreatment. It expects to generate new knowledge by applying microeconometric methods to large Australian administrative databases that track children’s health, education and welfare receipt over time. The expected outcomes of this project include an expanded knowledge base on how economic shocks affect maltreatment, the economic consequences of placing children in out-of-home care, and the value of economic policies for reducing the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment. This should provide significant benefits, such as providing practical evidence to policy makers and service providers that help prevent child maltreatment and reduce its harms.