This analysis focuses on the foster child's movement through foster care placements and back
to the home of the parent. Specifically, this analysis is concerned with how the probability …

We examine child maltreatment among the 1982–1988 birth cohorts in Illinois specific to
three categories of maltreatment allegations: sexual abuse, other types of abuse, and neglect. …

Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when
studying disadvantaged populations and welfare programs. The Food Stamp Program is …

Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that
neighborhood structural factors (eg poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a …

Children placed in foster care are at risk for becoming involved with the juvenile justice
system. This study documents the rates at which children involved with foster care enter the …

A pioneering study of the use of special-education services by foster children linked databases
from state departments of social service and of education to examine the characteristics …

Foster care caseloads around the country grew rapidly during the late 1980s. A lack of
national data has made it difficult to identify the sources of this growth. In this study, we use …

Does the timing and frequency of program benefits influence student school outcomes? The
poor may be especially vulnerable to income scarcity at the end of welfare program benefit …

Insight into the characteristics and system experiences for youth who touch both the child
welfare and juvenile justice systems has increased over the last decade. These youth are …

Growing interest in the use of administrative data to answer questions around program
implementation and effectiveness has led to greater discussion of how government agencies can …