Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment

Previously circulated as "Economic Conditions and Child Abuse." The authors thank Steven Haider, Hilary Hoynes, Magnus Lofstrom, Ron Oaxaca, Nick Sly, Gary Solon, Peter Siminski, Glen Waddell, Reed Walker, Sally Wallace, Wes Wilson, and Madeline Zavodny for valuable feedback, in addition to seminar participants at Arizona State University, Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, Texas A&M University, University of Oregon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Wollongong and conference participants at the IZA's 5th Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors, the NBER Children's Program Meetings, and the China Meeting of the Econometric Society. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• April 25, 2013