Econ Papers Daily / 期刊论文
谁拥有家庭？家庭与集体照料分配对儿童结局的影响
Who Gets a Family? The Consequences of Family and Congregate Care Allocation for Child Outcomes
摘要
Hundreds of thousands of children grow up in the US foster care system every year and are at high risk of experiencing negative outcomes such as incarceration and homelessness. This paper documents how the placement of foster children into families rather than congregate care improves their outcomes using the exits of other children from families as an instrument for their placement setting. Policies that change which children are matched to families can achieve a large percentage of the gains from policies that add families to the foster care system due to heterogeneity in treatment effects.
中文摘要
每年有数十万儿童在美国寄养系统中成长，他们面临监禁、无家可归等负面结果的高风险。本文利用其他儿童离开家庭作为其安置环境的工具变量，记录了将寄养儿童安置于家庭而非集体照料机构如何改善其结局。由于处理效应的异质性，改变儿童与家庭匹配方式的政策，能够实现通过向寄养系统增加家庭的政策所带来收益的很大一部分。