Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child MaltreatmentJason M. Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller, Benjamin Hansen
NBER Working Paper No. 18994 This paper examines the effect of labor market conditions—measured through unemployment, mass layoffs and predicted employment—on child abuse and neglect using county-level data from California. Using these indicators we separately estimate the effects of overall and gender-specific economic shocks. We find only modest evidence of a link between overall economic conditions and child maltreatment. However, analysis by gender reveals robust evidence that maltreatment decreases with indicators for male employment and increases with indicators for female employment. These opposite-signed effects are consistent with a theoretical framework that builds on family-time-use models and is supported by analysis of time-use data.
Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w18994 Published: Jason M. Lindo & Jessamyn Schaller & Benjamin Hansen, 2018. "Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment," Journal of Public Economics, . Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded* these:
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