Surviving Childhood: Effects of Removing a Child From Home.
This paper studies the effects of the court-ordered removal of children from home on health, crime, and education. To isolate causal effects, I exploit quasi-random variation in judge assignment together with across-judge variation in the tendency to favour removal in an instrumental variable design...
| Publicado en: | Review of Economic Studies Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 1001 - 1038 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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