Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment
Originally published 2022-12-28 · Children
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/children10010064 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Links childcare-subsidy eligibility generosity with maltreatment investigations, making coordination between employment and accessible care a family-support question.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Can a small increase in earnings unexpectedly cut off the childcare a family needs?
Links childcare-subsidy eligibility generosity with maltreatment investigations, making coordination between employment and accessible care a family-support question.
Study context
US state childcare-subsidy income policies linked with 2009–2019 child-welfare administrative data.
Age / stage: Children aged 0–5, 6–12 and 13–17; low-income working families.
Read with three questions
- How were income-eligibility policies linked with child-welfare data?
- How did the analysis handle age groups and state characteristics?
- Why are investigation rates different from a direct measure of maltreatment or a causal subsidy effect?
Keep the limits in view
State-level observational associations may reflect other policies and reporting differences; investigation rates do not identify individual maltreatment or prove a program effect.
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J Bart Klika; Kathryn Maguire-Jack; Megan Feely; William Schneider; Garrett T Pace; Whitney Rostad; Catherine A Murphy; Melissa T Merrick (2022). Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010064
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