Replication data for: Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Joseph J., Jr. Doyle

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Project Citation: 

Doyle, Joseph J., Jr. Replication data for: Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113220V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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. (JEL H75, I38, J13)

Scope of Project

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      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth


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