Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

E. Jason Baron and Max Gross

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Abstract: Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime—for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children—yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal.

Keywords: foster care; prison; child welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
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