Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment

This paper examines the effect of labor market conditions—measured through unemployment, mass layoffs and predicted employment—on child maltreatment using county-level data from California. Using these indicators, we separately estimate the effects of overall and gender-specific economic shocks. We...

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Published in:Journal of public economics 2018-07, Vol.163, p.77-98
Main Authors: Lindo, Jason M., Schaller, Jessamyn, Hansen, Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Child maltreatment
Job loss
Neglect
Time use
Unemployment
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