Racial Discrimination in Child Protective Services

E. Jason Baron (), Joseph J. Doyle, Natalia Emanuel and Peter Hull
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No 20231016, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Childhood experiences have an enormous impact on children’s long-term societal contributions. Experiencing childhood maltreatment is associated with compromised physical and mental health, decreased educational attainment and future earnings, and increased criminal activity. Child protective services is the government’s way of endeavoring to protect children. Foster care consequently has large potential effects on a child’s future education, earnings, and criminal activity. In this post, we draw on a recent study to document disparities in the likelihood that children of different races will be placed into foster care.

Keywords: child protective services (CPS); human capital; Racial discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 E24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10-16
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