The impact of placing adolescent males into foster care on education, income assistance, and convictions

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-69

  Warburton, William P ^a   Warburton, Rebecca N ^b   Sweetman, Arthur ^c   Hertzman, Clyde ^d  

^a Enterprise Economic Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

I13; J13

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ALLOPARENTAL CARE; CRIME; EDUCATION; INCOME; MALE; POLICY ANALYSIS; STATE ROLE;

EID: 84902278437     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/caje.12064     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. AFCARS (2006) The AFCARS Report Preliminary FY 2005 Estimates as of September 2006. Accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/tar/report13.htm
2. Angrist, Joshua D., and Guido W. Imbens (1994) "Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects." Econometrica 62, 467-75
3. Angrist, Joshua D., and Jorn-Steffen Pishke (2008) Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press
4. Angrist, Joshua D., Guido W. Imbens, and Donald B. Rubin (1996) "Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables." Journal of the American Statistical Association 91, 444-55
5. Berger, Lawrence, and Jane Waldfogel (2004) "Out-of-Home Placement of Children and Economic Factors: An Empirical Analysis." Review of Economics of the Household 2, 387-411
6. Bound, J., D. Jaeger, and R. Baker (1995) "Problems of Instrumental Variable Estimation When the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variables Is Weak." Journal of the American Statistical Association 90, 443-50
7. British Columbia (2010) Estimate: Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2011. Accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2010/estimates/2010_Estimates.pdf
8. Burton, Peter, and Shelley Phipps (2009) "The Prince and the Pauper: Movement of Children Up and Down the Canadian Income Distribution, 1994-2004." CLSRN Working Paper No. 31
9. Canadian Paediatric Society (2008) "Special Considerations for the Health Supervision of Children and Youth in Foster Care." Paediatrics and Child Health 13, 129-32
10. Doyle, Joseph J., Jr (2007) "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care." American Economic Review 97, 1583-610
11. Doyle, Joseph J., Jr (2008) "Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care." Journal of Political Economy 116, 746-70
12. Eschelbach-Hansen Mary (2007) "The Value of Adoption." Adoption Quarterly 10, 65-87
13. Foster, Leslie T., and Brian Wharf, eds (2008) People, Politics and Child Welfare in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press
14. Head Start Bureau (2006) Head Start Program Fact Sheet Fiscal Year 2006. Accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ohs/about/fy2006.html
15. Heckman, James, Robert LaLonde, and Jeffrey Smith (1999) "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs." In Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. Orley Ashenfelter and David Card. Vol. 3A. Amsterdam: North-Holland
16. Heckman, James J., Sergio Urzua, and Edward Vytlacil (2006) "Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, 389-432
17. HRSDC (2007) Child and Family Services Annual Statistical Report 2000-2001 to 2003-2004. Catalogue No. HS25-4/2004E-PDF
18. Imbens, Guido W., and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (2009) "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation." Journal of Economic Literature 47, 5-86
19. Kamerman, Sheila, Shelley Phipps, and Asher Ben-Arieh, eds (2010) From Child Welfare to Child Well-being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Making Policy. A Special Volume in Honor of Alfred Kahn. New York: Springer Press
20. Lawrence, Catherine R., Elizabeth A. Carlson, and Byron Egeland (2006) "The Impact of Foster Care on Development." Development and Psychopathology 18, 57-76
21. Lindquist, Matthew J., and Torsten Santavirta (2012) "Does placing children in out-of-home care increase their adult criminality?" SOFI Working Paper 8. Accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.sofi.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.89210.1337852887!/menu/standard/file/WP12no8.pdf
22. McDonald, Thomas P., Reva I. Allen, Alex Westerfelt, and Irving Piliavin (1996) Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis (Washington, DC: CWLA Press)
23. McGuire, Therese J., and David Merriman (2006) "Has Welfare Reform Changed State Expenditure Patterns?" National Poverty Center, Policy Brief #7. Accessed 18 August 2007. http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief7
24. McInnes, Craig (2001) Vancouver Sun, 3 October 2001
25. Moffit, Robert A. (1999) "New Developments In Econometric Methods For Labor Market Analysis." In Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. Orley Ashenfelter and David Card. Vol. 3A. Amsterdam: North-Holland
26. OACAS (Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies) (2007) "More Foster Families Needed in Ontario." News Release, 21 October 2007. Accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.oacas.org/newsroom/releases/newsreleasefosterfamily07oct21.pdf
27. RCYBC, and PHO (2006) Health and Well-Being of Children in Care in BC: Report 1 on Health Services Utilization and Mortality. Accessed 18 August 2012. www.health.gov.bc.ca/.../Children_in_care_joint_special_report.pdf
28. RCYBC, and PHO (2007) Health and Well-Being of Children in Care in B.C.: Educational Experience and Outcomes, accessed 18 August 2012. http://www.rcybc.ca/Images/PDFs/Reports/educational%20outcomes%20of%20cic.pdf
29. RCYBC, and PHO (2009) Kids, Crime and Care: Youth Justice Experiences and Outcomes. Accessed 18 August 2012. www.rcybc.ca/Images/PDFs/Reports/Youth%20Justice%20Joint%20Rpt%20FINAL%20.pdf
30. Rossi, Peter H., John R. Schuerman, and Stephen Budde (1996) Understanding Child Maltreatment Decisions and Those Who Make Them. Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
31. Rutman, Deborah, Carol Hubberstey, April Barlow, and Erinn Brown (2005) "When Youth Age Out of Care - a Report on Baseline Findings." School of Social Work, University of Victoria. Accessed 20 November 2011. http://socialwork.uvic.ca/docs/research/whenyouthage.pdf
32. Ryan, Joseph P., Jane Marie Marshall, Denise Herz, and Pedro M. Hernandez (2008) "Juvenile Delinquency in Child Welfare: Investigating Group Home Effects." Children and Youth Services Review 30, 1088-99
33. Saunders, Bernadette, and Chris Goddard (1998) A Critique of Risk Assessment Procedures: Instruments of Abuse. National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Caulfield East, Australia. Accessed 20 November 2011. http://www.childhood.org.au/Assets/Files/401312a9-8137-4f52-a008-cbea4733f268.pdf
34. Scarcella, Cynthia A., Roseana Bess, Erica H. Zielewski, and Rob Geen (2006) The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children V: Understanding State Variation in Child Welfare Financing. Washington, DC: Urban Institute
35. Staiger, D., and J.H. Stock (1997) "Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments." Econometrica 65, 557-86
36. Stock, J.H., and M. Yogo (2005) "Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression." In Identification and Inference for Econometric Models: Essays in Honor of Thomas Rothenberg, ed. D.W.K. Andrews and J.H. Stock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
37. US Bureau of the Census (2007) Estimates of the Population by Selected Age Groups for the United States and for Puerto Rico: July 1, 2006. SC-EST2006-01