Before and after out-of-home placement: Child health, education and crime

Petra Gram Cavalca, Mette Ejrnæs and Mette Gørtz
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Petra Gram Cavalca: Danish Ministry of Finance
Mette Ejrnæs: University of Copenhagen and CEBI, Department of Economics

No 22-22, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

Abstract: We investigate the short-term impact of out-of-home care on child health, schooling and juvenile crime. Using an event study to examine the dynamics around the time of placement, we document a clear deterioration of mental health and increasing crime rates before placement. After placement, we find a decrease in hospitalizations and an improvement in schooling outcomes. For a sub-sample, we use caseworkers’ risk-assessment to form a control group of children who were at risk of a placement. For the marginal child, we find little evidence of a causal effect of placement, as we also see improvements for the control group.

Keywords: Child protection; health; schooling; crime; event study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I14 I21 I38 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72
Date: 2022-11-04
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